A review by limabeans
The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

challenging dark reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

It did what it was supposed to. Hard to evoke much emotion when it is only around 60 pages, but I do think this story is a good symbolic representation of treatment towards women’s mental health in the late 1800s.

I read something about how receiving this kind of treatment back then was a luxury— and it is very interesting. Despite the obvious ineffectiveness of this isolation  resting cure in this story most women would never be put in this situation to try for treatment. I just think both of these sides go to show the deterioration of women’s mental health during this era of time and that this ‘intervention’ really didn’t work much better than not having any. But, just a thought. 

I also listened to this on audio book because it was very easily accessible that way. Maybe would have enjoyed it more physically reading. 
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