The Yellow Wall Paper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Bog

The Yellow Wall Paper is a short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892. The story is a first-person narrative of a woman's descent into madness. The protagonist is a woman who is suffering from what is believed to be postpartum depression and is prescribed a ""rest cure"" by her physician husband, who is also her caretaker. The woman is confined to a room with yellow wallpaper, which she begins to obsess over. She becomes increasingly isolated and delusional as she fixates on the wallpaper and the imaginary woman she sees trapped behind it. The story explores themes of gender inequality, mental illness, and the dangers of the medical profession's ignorance towards women's health. The Yellow Wall Paper is a powerful and haunting tale that has become an important feminist text and a classic of American literature.The ""rest cure"" was prescribed to Gilman by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, author of the Autobiography of a Quack.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.