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#16 The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Gilman, 1892)

 Rating: 8.6/10

    Recent focus on short stories featuring on feminism and gender equality has made me cultivate ability of viewing the world in a specific aspect. Short story ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ too had lots of details the author implemented regarding herself experiencing ‘rest cure’ to cure postpartum depression. Gilman put detailed depiction on isolation and forced feeding during the narrator’s time in a room with yellow wallpaper. The depiction of a wallpaper as a desperate woman looking for an escape from the bars of cage perhaps represents herself yearning to escape from her husband/doctor’s repression of her freedom. 

    I liked how the story ended with John fainting because it perhaps represents the author’s hope towards gender equality. Despite all the suppression the narrator experienced, she never faints nor shows her weakness to John. Meanwhile, John easily collapses when he encounters his wife behind the door. This ending was freshening as it casted hope for women’s gender role and treatment in the future. 


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