“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This story is very weird and is about a woman’s decent into madness. The story really creeped me out and I don’t think I like it. It’s like a horror story and I’m not a liker of horror stories at all. I get nightmares after watching or reading them. Hopefully I won’t get one after reading this one.

            So the narrator and her family move into this house for the summer and the narrator obsesses about this yellow wallpaper and swears she see someone behind it. She found something creepy about the house and tries to tell her husband, but he won’t listen. The narrator thinks that the person behind the wallpaper is a woman who was confined in the room as if she was and that is why the guards were put up around the window and other such things. Well eventually, she goes mad and tears off all the wallpaper and when her husband finally opens the door, he faints and she circles the room on all fours saying. “I’ve got out at last,…despite of you and Jane! And I’ve pulled off all of the wallpaper, so you can’t put me back!” (1695). Creepy little story isn’t it? Ya, I thought so.

            Well that’s really all I have to say on this story. I don’t want to get to into it because of the whole horror crazy side of it. The story was interesting, creepy and I don’t think I’ll be reading it again any time soon.