5/13/2023 0 Comments Gilman the yellow wallpaper![]() It is the room’s wallpaper, a “repellant” and “smouldering unclean yellow”, with “sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin” that forms the centrepiece of the story. ![]() Perhaps, the narrator muses, it had once been a nursery or playroom. The wallpaper is torn, the floor scratched and gouged. ![]() The room her husband selects as their bedroom, though large, airy and bright, is barred at the window and furnished with a bed that is bolted to the floor. The house is “queer”, long abandoned and isolated. There she is to rest, take tonics, air and exercise – and absolutely forbidden to engage in intellectual work until well again. The narrator is brought by her physician husband to a summer retreat in the countryside to recover from her “temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency”. Gilman’s short story is a straightforward one. ![]()
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