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The Yellow Wallpaper — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wallpaper — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus—but John says the very worst thing I can do is to think about my condition, and I confess it always makes me feel bad.
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A woman slowly loses her mind in a room papered in yellow as her husband confines her to bed rest. Gilman's chilling story is a searing feminist critique of 19th-century medicine's treatment of women.

Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Genre: Fiction

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Out of another I get a lovely view of the bay and a little private wharf belonging to the estate. There is a beautiful shaded lane that runs down there from the house. 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. 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. So I try.

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