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Summary: Very disturbing book...
Review: Although feminists seem to own "The Yellow Wallpaper", this short and semi-autobiographical plot is more about the control the medical profession holds over our health and well being than it is about oppression of women in general. Once the story's protagonist falls under the permanent control of her physician husband, her life becomes one obsessive-compulsive act after another until the climax. Post partum depression is the primary diagnosis presented in this rapidly moving plot. Perhaps this gem of a story would be better reviewed as medical literature and made required reading- it's short, after all- for students and professors who study physician-patient communications.
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Summary: Powerful, a woman's tragic story
Review: Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a genius. She has a superb inmagination and brings the reader into all of her stories. I wrote a paper on her and her life along with "The Yellow Wallpaper"--everything she writes makes the readers think long after they have read anything by her. The way she shows this woman's life of being locked up within her babies nursery and her visions of women behind the putrid, stinking yellow wallpaper--along with many other things within the story really gets the reader involved in her life of pain of depression of losing her child. She never sees her baby and often to never sees anyone else. She is being talked into being crazy and a bad mother--from her doctor husband and her brother-in-law doctor. I think she has been set personally so her husband can have an affair with someone else,other than her. This story really makes you hate men that treat women like dogs or worse than that. What no one can really answer after they have read the story is whether she truly has freedom or not or is it just a mental freedom from everything real. Gilman really allows the reader to picture what the woman in the yellow wallpapered room is seeing with the vividness in words and actions that happen within the short story. She also melts together the dream/insane with the real world and that is also what makes her stories so great and so symbolic to the reader.
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Summary: Chilling.
Review: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper (Feminist Press edition, 1973)One of the best things about this small volume is that there's good deal of biographical and context information in the back. The story itself, already creepy enough on its own, takes on added weight when tied in to various minor details in Gilman's life. The biographer notes at one point that of Gilman's many writings, the only ones to survive in print at the time were this story and a textbook, Women and Economics. While this is certainly an above-average piece of work, there are a number of things about it that make it easy to see why less gripping tales in Gilman's corpus might have fallen by the wayside. The main annoyance of Gilman's writing style is the constant paragraph breaks, a longstanding (and, one wonders, is there any reason behind it besides tradition?) affectation of what we'll call euphemistically erotic novelists. Really, subtlety is a good thing. While we're at it, the story would be more effective with half, or less, the number of existing exclamation points. The only parallel I can think of these days, stylewise, is the chatter of vacuous fourteen-year-old girls mooning over the Backstreet Boys. It gets painful after a while. Annoyances of grammar aside, the story itself is quite a work. It purports to be the diary of a woman descending into madness thanks to, in essence, being treated like a woman in nineteenth-century America (the story itself dates from 1899). One wonders if H. P. Lovecraft didn't lift some of his descriptions of raw chaos from Gilman's descriptions of the wallpaper in the title, which is about the closest thing to raw chaos one is likely to find outside a straight horror story. There is nothing here to suspend disbelief; there is nothing here that requires it. By the time the last few sentences roll around, the author's state is entirely plausible, and that, more than anything, is what makes this such a fine piece of work. Should be, and in many places is, required reading. ****
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Summary: good book, read this
Review: Considering I don't read a lot, I liked this book. It kept my interest, as to what the narrator was talking about, but I thought it could have went into a bit more detail. None the less, it was a good book.
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Summary: Powerful, a woman's tragic story
Review: Excellent book which shows the impact of male dominance on women in the late 19th century. The "Yellow Wallpaper" is Charlotte Perkins Gilman's greatest work. Very powerful.
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Summary: Plenty of Historical Value
Review: Gilman's novel is even more relevant today than when it was first printed. More than merely a narrative of female intellectual oppression or a critique of late 19th century social mores, "The Yellow Wallpaper" documents a practice that was common among the middle and upper class. Known as the "rest cure," women who displayed signs of depression or anxiety were committed to lie in bed for weeks at a time, and allowed no more than twenty minutes of intellectual exertion a day. Believing that intellectual activity would overwhelm the fragile female mind, "rest cure" refers to the prevention of women from thinking, relying on the assumption that the natural state of the female mind was one of emptiness. Seeing as how the women were confined to empty rooms with no exercise or stimulation of any kind, the obvious consequence was that the women became still more anxious, which reinforced the convictions of the doctors and husbands that their wives needed further rest. The "rest cure" was prescribed most commonly to women who had recently given birth. Suffering from what we now know is post-partem depression (caused by hormonal fluctuations of seratonin that result from the female body adjusting to not having a fetus to delivering hormones to), women were locked up and kept from seeing their newly born children. Gilman's book, therefore, is not only an American literary classic, but it also provides insight into America's social history; a history which will not be forgotten as long as people continue to carefully read this psychologically wrought story.
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Summary: writing in a gilded cage
Review: I was 15 when I first read this book. I was awkward and unhappy. The book hit something inside of me and wrenched sympathy from me. It was unbelievable how much oppressed women writers were in the 19th century. The central character in the Yellow wallpaper was trapped behind a cage of propriety, carefully manufactured and sold by society. Her writings were "destructive" and were dangerous to the accepted norm. When she couldn't write, she couldn't live. Her madness was a direct reaction against her entrapment. She was someone who simply couldn't live without writing. I would highly recommend this book to any reader. It is tragic, beautiful and maddening.
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Summary: Girl Power
Review: In The Yellow Wallpaper, there is a theme of escape. Yellow for many years was the color that stood for insanity. T his has a connect ion with the story as it goes on. Jane, the main character, is going insane while warning women of the pressures society puts on them. Her feelings were quite clear. She was not going to be kept from being successful, or strong, simply because she was a woman. The concept of whether or not she is insane, however, is a different story all together. Jane could be interpreting things much different than the actual fact. Overall, it was a venture into the mind of one of the many suppressed women of the 1800's.
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Summary: Girl Power
Review: In The Yellow Wallpaper, there is a theme of escape. Yellow for many years was the color that stood for insanity. T his has a connect ion with the story as it goes on. Jane, the main character, is going insane while warning women of the pressures society puts on them. Her feelings were quite clear. She was not going to be kept from being successful, or strong, simply because she was a woman. The concept of whether or not she is insane, however, is a different story all together. Jane could be interpreting things much different than the actual fact. Overall, it was a venture into the mind of one of the many suppressed women of the 1800's.
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Summary: Small setting
Review: The place a room to cogitate in. A meditation on a room.
Explores the lives of many women before wwii before they entered
the workplace, possibly before the right to vote.
A confined sexual identity is melded to a society fixed in time.
More potent a read for women, or those of various identity.
Men might find it boring.
Yet it was an accelerated read.
A small tome.
either the yellowpaper goes krc, drez..
A camera on another world. Robotic insects coming out of
automatic mines, forging hair tooth adult stem cell seeds into statues of
golden calves, krc.
Look out slowly over your land, the weights of centripital
guidance, the umbrellas and briefcases of your denizen.
Next time you reach to scratch your golden calve remember
notos, Posted.
spotter, truk island, south pacific
Phan says the Chain, Florey, Flemming cafe on auburn.
Meet you on Rue de Parapluie
lol
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reg. penna dept. agric.
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