The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"Yellow Wallpaper" is written as a secret magazine of a woman who is condemned to the treatment of country rest, unable to enjoy the pleasures of marriage and motherhood. Although she was willing to write, her husband and doctor forbade it, instead prescribing complete passivity. In the involuntary confinement of the bedroom, the hero creates his own reality according to the hypnotic pattern of the faded yellow wallpaper - a pattern that begins to symbolize his own confinement. Told with extraordinary psychological and dramatic accuracy, "The Yellow Wall" stands out not only for the metaphorical originality with which it depicts a woman's descent into madness, but also for the power of its testimony to the importance of freedom and self-empowerment for women.
