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A review by thelizabeth
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
5.0
Picked up a 1973 Feminist Press copy of the story at the closing month sale at Skyline Books in NYC. I also reread it on DailyLit, in 2008:
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Actual conversation.
"Meg did you ever read 'The Yellow Wallpaper' in high school?"
"Yes!"
"Cool, well you should read it again!"
"Is that the one where she walks into the ocean?"
So close.
I did like the story in high school and I revisited it via DailyLit over lunch today. DO THIS.
I was stunned (again) how good it is. It's terrifying! And makes its feminist thesis perfectly clear while also being tragic and ominous. Coming from so far away as 1892, it's incredible to think what Gilman must have been like.
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Actual conversation.
"Meg did you ever read 'The Yellow Wallpaper' in high school?"
"Yes!"
"Cool, well you should read it again!"
"Is that the one where she walks into the ocean?"
So close.
I did like the story in high school and I revisited it via DailyLit over lunch today. DO THIS.
I was stunned (again) how good it is. It's terrifying! And makes its feminist thesis perfectly clear while also being tragic and ominous. Coming from so far away as 1892, it's incredible to think what Gilman must have been like.