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

What Others Say about The yellowed Wallpaper The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story write by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1890 and eventually published in 1892 in the innovative England Magazine and in William Dean Howells allurement, Great Modern American Stories (Shumaker 94). The story was schoolmaster not only 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 madness 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 instigate of her treatment for a nervous breakdown. Isolated and forbidden to express herself creatively, she becomes obsessed with the garish yellow wall paper. She becomes convinced there are women trapped behind the fearful pattern and eventually becomes lost in her delusions trying to free them (Gilman 1-15). Charlotte Perkins Gilman originally sent her story to William Dean Howells who showed it to Atlantic Monthly editor Horace Scudder who sent it behind to Gilman unpublished, saying, I could not forgive myself if I made others as miserable as I made myself (Shumaker 194).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, terrible 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 portrait of the damaging role o... ...w Wallpaper. The Yellow Wallpaper and other Stories. New York Dover Publications, 1997. 1-15. Hedges, Elaine R. Afterword. The Yellow Wallpaper. 1973 37-63. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism 9. Detroit Gale 1988. Pringle, 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 naturalism 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.