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amylangdown_ 's review for:
The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
well written short story with interesting descriptions which reflect on the blanket term ‘hysteria’ or ‘nervousness’ for any mental health condition experienced by women in the 1800s. It’s in interesting insight into how the mind can be affected postpartum, specifically with postpartum psychosis. I think it would have been really tense to have read it as a serial, as it was originally published.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Mental illness, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting