What Others Say about The Yellow Wallpaper -- Yellow Wallpaper essays

What Others Say about The discolor cover The yellow(a) Wallpaper is a short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1890 and in the end publish in 1892 in the New England Magazine and in William doyen Howells collection, Great Modern American Stories (Shumaker 94). The story was original not entirely because of its subject matter, but also because it is written in the form of a loosely connected journal. It follows the narrators private thoughts which become increasingly more confusing. The structure consists of disjointed sentences as the narrator gradually descends more and more into her dementia as her only escape from an oppressive husband and society. In The Yellow Wallpaper the narrator is a young woman who has moved into a strange old mansion with her psychiatrist husband. She is confined to her room as part of her treatment for a nervous breakdown. Isolated and forbidden to point herself creatively, she becomes obsessed with the garish yellow wallpaper. She becomes convinced there are women pin down behind the hideous pattern and eventually becomes lost in her delusions exhausting to free them (Gilman 1-15). Charlotte Perkins Gilman originally sent her story to William Dean Howells who showed it to Atlantic periodic editor Horace Scudder who sent it back to Gilman unpublished, saying, I could not forgive myself if I made others as miserable as I made myself (Shumaker 194). When Howells published the story in his own collection he described it as, loathly and too wholly dire . . . too terribly good to be published (Shoemaker 194). The Yellow Wallpaper hit a nerve with nineteenth-century readers as it went beyond a horror story and presented a damning personation of the damaging role o... ...w Wallpaper. The Yellow Wallpaper and other Stories. New York capital of Delaware Publications, 1997. 1-15. Hedges, Elaine R. Afterword. The Yellow Wallpaper. 1973 37-63. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism 9. Detroit Gale 1988. Pringl e, Mary Beth. La poetique de Fespace in Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper The French-American Review. 3 (1979) 15-22. Schopp-Schilling, Beate. The Yellow Wallpaper A Rediscovered Realistic Story. American Literary realism 1870-1910. 8 (1975) 107-108. Shumaker, Conrad. Too Terribly Good to Be Printed Charlotte Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper American Literature. 57 (1985) 194-198. Treichler, Paula A. Escaping the Sentence Diagnosis and Discourse in The Yellow Wallpaper Tulsa Studies in Womens Literature. 3 (1984) 61-77.