It is stripped off - the paper - in great patches ...The colour is repellent ...
In the places where it isn't faded and where the sun is just so - I can see a st
range, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about ...' Based
on the author's own experiences, 'The Yellow Wallpaper' is the chilling tale of
a woman driven to the brink of insanity by the 'rest cure' prescribed after the
birth of her child. Isolated in a crumbling colonial mansion, in a room with bar
s on the windows, the tortuous pattern of the yellow wallpaper winds its way int
o the recesses of her mind. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading femin
ist intellectual of the early twentieth century.
