![]() ![]() Many in my collection were obvious morality tales. ![]() It’s got a heck of a voice, and as someone who often had little to do in his hospital bed other than trace the patterns in wallpaper, allow me to say it speaks damningly of being cooped up when you need others. It’s a prime example of Horror writing as we watch someone with no choice but to go mad, and we can ponder how much is her pre-existing psychology and how much is the result of her husband’s paternal cruelty. Stuck in that room, the narrator’s derangement devolves, wondering how her baby is, and seeing people inside the ugly yellow wallpaper who can’t be there. ![]() She suffers worse at the hand of a patronizing husband who confines her to a single room, with a gate at the stairs and bars on the windows, allegedly for her own good. ![]() It is an incredible tone piece, told by a narrator who suffered difficult childbirth and a “mild” nervous disorder. I can see why every editor agreed to include “The Yellow Wall-Paper” as the title story. Commenting on the contents of the volume becomes perilous because not only may your results vary, but so may your ingredients. This is a difficult collection to review because “The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories” seems to be the title of at least four different Gilman collections, some with no more in common than the one title story. ![]()
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