Reviews - The Yellow Wall-Paper

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The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

4.05 AVERAGE

lizlucas619's review against another edition

3.5

dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

pijonmammy's review against another edition

4.25

fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

pknaps's review against another edition

4.0

I read this for my coursework and honestly I loved it.
Gilman appears to criticise medical care that ignores the patient, and views them as an object of treatment rather than a person. In doing this she also critiques the subordination of women to their husbands, their role as an accessory, and an inferior other. Gilman exaggerates how easily authority can be abused, and how this almost always leads to further deterioration (of health, or relationships), rather than curing, maintaining, or bettering them.
It attacks S. Weir Mitchell’s “resting cure” for depression, as she was subject to, and almost became a victim of it herself. The Yellow Wallpaper appears to display how a mind filled of anxiety could only deteriorate if forced into a state of inactivity, and cut off from a healthy world