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Title details for The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Available

The Yellow Wallpaper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Erin Yuen
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Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband (John) has rented an old mansion for the summer and the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. As a form of treatment, she is forbidden from working, but encouraged to eat well and get plenty of exercise and air, so she can recuperate from what he calls a temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency, a diagnosis common to women in that period. She hides her journal from her husband and his sister the housekeeper, fearful of being reproached for overworking herself. With nothing to stimulate her, she becomes obsessed by the pattern and color of the wallpaper, descending slowly into psychosis.
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Publisher: Dreamscape Media Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781666608281
  • File size: 19622 KB
  • Release date: March 28, 2017
  • Duration: 00:40:52

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  • ISBN: 9781666608281
  • File size: 19625 KB
  • Release date: March 28, 2017
  • Duration: 00:41:53
  • Number of parts: 1
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Classic Literature Fiction Literature

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:920
Text Difficulty:4-5

Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband (John) has rented an old mansion for the summer and the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. As a form of treatment, she is forbidden from working, but encouraged to eat well and get plenty of exercise and air, so she can recuperate from what he calls a temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency, a diagnosis common to women in that period. She hides her journal from her husband and his sister the housekeeper, fearful of being reproached for overworking herself. With nothing to stimulate her, she becomes obsessed by the pattern and color of the wallpaper, descending slowly into psychosis.
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Classic Literature Fiction Literature