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A review by firstimpressionsreviews
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
dark
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story of a women with postpartum depression. However, as it is the 1800s her husband assumes it is “nerves” and that she is slowly going mad. The story takes places in the space of one room with you guessed it — yellow wallpaper. Her desent and obesseion with the room’s decor leads the plot and held my attention, until the abrupt ending. The Yellow Wallpaper was well written and reminded me of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. My one complaint is that I wasn’t crazy about the narrator, Cathy Dobson. Her voice was a little wobbly and it was almost as if it was being played by a victrola. Overall, I enjoyed this small sampling to a classic horror tale,