Book Description:
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a groundbreaking and unsettling short story that explores the psychological toll of confinement and the silencing of women’s voices. Told through a series of journal entries, the story follows an unnamed woman suffering from postpartum depression who is prescribed a "rest cure" by her physician husband and isolated in a room with a peculiar yellow wallpaper.
As the days pass in solitude, her mental state deteriorates, and she becomes obsessed with the wallpaper’s pattern, believing she sees a woman trapped inside trying to break free. What begins as quiet discontent spirals into madness, as the narrator’s inner world collapses under the weight of repression and invalidation.
First published in 1892, The Yellow Wallpaper is now hailed as a feminist classic — a chilling and powerful critique of the medical and societal treatment of women’s mental health in the 19th century.
