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| 43 of 46 people found the following review helpful  Plenty of Historical Value, By hermione31 "hermione" (California) - See all my reviews This review is from: The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) (Paperback) 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... Read more 17 of 18 people found the following review helpful  Early feminist literature - memorable, By This review is from: The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback) This book consists of a gem of a story and a mediocre afterward. The afterward includes a useful biography of the author and a short analysis of the story; my bias is always to allow the story to stand on its own and print literary criticism in books of literary criticism - Elaine Hedges bears the brunt of my bias by simply pointing out the obvious with regards to the wall-paper as symbol.The story itself is very interesting - it is difficult to remember you are reading fiction rather than an excerpt from a diary - the author is superb at writing in a style that seems to be uncensored thoughts. Within this framework, Gilman manages to have the narrator's changing perceptions of the wall-paper pattern reflect the narrator's descent into insanity. There is a didactic content built into the actions and words of the characters other than the narrator - the very rational husband-doctor, the sister-in-law who efficiently keeps the house going as its "mistress"... Read more 64 of 79 people found the following review helpful Very good, inspirational!, By A Customer This review is from: The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback) Charlotte Perkins Gilman, an American short story author, writes "The Yellow Wallpaper." In this literary work Gilman illustrates the unfortunate injustices women are forced to accept. Gilman portrays a woman who needs to escape societies pressures, yet seeking her true identity she finds only insanity. This is a sad story that outlines the repression of the women in the late 1800's due to male supremacy. Furthermore, Gilman expresses these three over arching themes: gender, struggle for identity, and survival. These three issues question the position and role of women in a male dominated society. For many years Gilman suffered from a severe and continuous nervous breakdown tending to Melancholia. In stir of hope she sought the best specialist in nervous disease, Dr. S. Weir Mitchell. He applied a "rest cure" treatment at once; this treatment involves total bed rest, isolation and confinement. Unfortunately his directions of bed rest, two hours of... Read more |
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