He says that with my imaginative power and habit of story-making a nervous weakness like mine is sure to lead to all manner of excited fancies, and that I ought to use my will and good sense to check the tendency. I always fancy I see people walking in these numerous paths and arbors, but John has cautioned me not to give way to fancy in the least. There is a beautiful shaded lane that runs down there from the house. Out of another I get a lovely view of the bay and a little private wharf belonging to the estate. Her quest, however, leads not to the truth, but into the darkest depths of madness.Ī condemnation of the patriarchy, The Yellow Wallpaper explores with terrifying economy the oppression, grave misunderstanding, and willful dismissal of women in late nineteenth-century society.įirst published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. With nothing else to occupy her mind, the woman resolves to unlock the mystery of the wallpaper. Its strange pattern mutates in the moonlight, revealing what appears to be a human figure in the design.
In a private journal, the woman records her growing obsession with the “horrid” wallpaper. Forbidden from doing work of any kind, she spends her days in the house’s former nursery, with its barred windows, scratched floor, and peeling yellow wallpaper. Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression-a slight hysterical tendency” after the birth of her child, a woman is urged to rest for the summer in an old colonial mansion.
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