Reviews with content warning for Mental illness - The Yellow Wallpaper

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The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

452 reviews

katesant's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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petty_anthropology's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

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animebloodqueen's review against another edition

4.0

dark reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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citlalialvrod's review against another edition

2.0

dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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gabthebookworm's review against another edition

4.25

dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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takarakeireads's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.

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thecheeseowl's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I have wanted to read this book for a while now and I was not disappointed.

This is a book about

a woman who is experiencing postpartum depression. Her husband who is a physician is making it worse by locking her in an unfamiliar room with ugly wallpaper all day and not allowing her to talk to anyone or do anything but stare at the wall. This "treatment" worsens the woman causing her to start seeing things in the wallpaper.

This book is based on an experience the author herself had when she gave birth to her daughter. Which means that there is hope for the main character being able to escape her prison because the author herself was able to.

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sophie8's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

I'm terrified. The image of this women just crawling ('creeping') quickly round and round the edges of her room, and her husband opening the door and seeing her, fainting and her thought is that it's annoying, now she must creep over him each lap. There's something so chilling about reading a first person diary entry style book, where the narrator descends into psychoses. The 'women behind the paper' was creepy to start, but it was when she began to think she was the woman that was the worst. Written seamlessly and expertly, a definate 5 stars. Huge statement on the treatment of women, mental health, and the prescription of bed rest/ 'rest cure' where you're not allowed to do anything but sit or sleep. The wallpaper was unsettling, especially the pattern, although that was the point!

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