14.9k reviews for:

The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

4.05 AVERAGE

elspeth_mc's review against another edition

3.75

dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mari_anoisette's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

tkcarey's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious fast-paced

isabelh0410's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Womanhood and insanity. Are we all driven to madness because of men?

dbynum1's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

sbeech36's review against another edition

3.0

fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

clinicallybookish's review against another edition

4.0

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“But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.”

A powerful and striking, albeit tiny glimpse into the insane idea of hysteria and treatments like "the rest cure" where women were forced into bed rest, overfed, and subjected to electro-therapy and/or "pelvic massage"... riiiiiiiight... just rub one out and eat some fat and you'll be fine...

But are we any further ahead today with how women's health, women's mental health, and mental health in general are approached? 

vinylrose_reads's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Mental illness

Moderate: Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Gaslighting

Minor: Pregnancy

v4nillaf4wn's review against another edition

4.0

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are you really living if you're not a hauntingly beautiful apparation driving men insane by making them hallucinate

rolobear's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced