What Others Say about The Yellow Wallpaper -- Yellow Wallpaper essays

What Others Say about The yellow(a) cover The Yellow Wallpaper is a short reputation written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1890 and eventually create in 1892 in the New England Magazine and in William Dean Howells collection, long Modern American Stories (Shumaker 94). The story was original not only because of its national matter, but also because it is written in the form of a loosely connected journal. It follows the narrators private thoughts which become increasingly more confusing. The structure consists of dislocated sentences as the narrator gradually descends more and more into her madness as her only escape from an oppressive husband and society. In The Yellow Wallpaper the narrator is a young woman who has moved into a obscure old mansion with her psychiatrist husband. She is confined to her room as firearm of her treatment for a nervous breakdown. Isolated and forbidden to express herself creatively, she becomes ghost with the garish yellow wallpaper. She becomes convinced there are women trapped cornerstone the hideous pattern and eventually becomes lost in her delusions trying to sluttish them (Gilman 1-15). Charlotte Perkins Gilman originally sent her story to William Dean Howells who showed it to Atlantic Monthly editor in chief Horace Scudder who sent it back to Gilman unpublished, saying, I could not forgive myself if I make others as miserable as I made myself (Shumaker 194). When Howells published the story in his own collection he described it as, terrible and likewise wholly dire . . . too terribly good to be published (Shoemaker 194). The Yellow Wallpaper hit a nerve with nineteenth-century readers as it went beyond a horror story and presented a damning portrait of the negatively charged role o... ...w Wallpaper. The Yellow Wallpaper and other Stories. New York Dover Publications, 1997. 1-15. Hedges, Elaine R. Afterword. The Yellow Wallpaper. 1973 37-63. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism 9. Detroit Gale 198 8. Pringle, Mary Beth. La poetique de Fespace in Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper The French-American Review. 3 (1979) 15-22. Schopp-Schilling, Beate. The Yellow Wallpaper A Rediscovered Realistic Story. American Literary Realism 1870-1910. 8 (1975) 107-108. Shumaker, Conrad. Too Terribly Good to Be Printed Charlotte Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper American Literature. 57 (1985) 194-198. Treichler, Paula A. Escaping the decry Diagnosis and Discourse in The Yellow Wallpaper Tulsa Studies in Womens Literature. 3 (1984) 61-77.