Published in 1982, it is far ahead of its time. The text is rich and dense, encompassing many themes. In many respects, “The Yellow Wall-Paper” is an excellent short story, deserving of its classic status. She becomes obsessed, convinced that she must try to rescue this imprisoned woman. She begins to imagine a trapped woman behind those yellow walls, trying to break free. Left with nothing to do, however, the wallpaper starts to consume her life. And rest some more.Īgainst her wishes, our narrator’s bedroom is placed in an old nursery with hideous yellow wallpaper she finds objectionable. To accelerate her health, husband John rents a beautiful colonial mansion for the summer so his wife can rest. She is ill with what her physician husband and brother diagnosed as “temporary nervous depression.” She is “absolutely forbidden to work until well again.”
“The Yellow Wall-Paper” is told through an unnamed woman’s perspective. Penguin’s Little Black Classic version of The Yellow Wall-Paper contains three Charlotte Perkins Gilman short stories: the highly influential “The Yellow Wall-Paper,” along with “The Rocking-Chair,” and “Old Water.”
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