The Yellow Wallpaper

Synopsis

The Yellow Wallpaper written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a short story of a woman who has been forced to confine herself in a locked room in the pretended care for her motherhood.

Jane, a young mother has been confined in a rented summer house by her husband John who is a physician. Jane goes through psychic problems inside the room and started believing herself feel secure inside that room. The very purpose of keeping her inside was defeated and she is now obsessed with the room and the smell of the wall paper found inside the room.

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