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4.0 out of 5 stars A GREAT SENSE OF IMAGINATION, Jul 22 2002

By	MANESHKA ELIATAMBY (COLUMBIA, SC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Yellow Wallpaper (Paperback)

The first time I read the Yellow Wallpaper I was struck by the sheer force the words have on the reader. Perkins Gillman plays a mind game with her words, and the reader is made to join her sense of imagination. I first read it for a literature class, and each of the students in the class had a different interpretation of the story. This seemed extremely effective - it had made all of us think, and imagine. It had made is not just analyze the words, but it made us become a part of the story.I myself felt that the woman in the story was quite amazing - there were two men in her life, her husband and her brother both doctors by profession who were most incensitive to her needs. As can be expected of that time period, they were more interested in the norms of society, and were not going to allow the woman to act contrary to the norm. She however, was not about to give up on behalf of the norm. She was going to fight to the very end, and it felt almost as though she had liberated her own mind when she stopped seeing another woman in the wallpaper, but herself became one with it. Those of you who read this should also go ahead and read something on the author. It is a truely amazing story, and leaves plenty of room for the imagination. or. In one of her essays she talks of why she wrote this story.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Early Feminist Insight, Mar 12 2001

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This book truly captures the constraints felt by so many women, both in Perkins' time and in our own. She is able to touch on a very sensitive subject with amazing poetic prose. The fact that this book was written in the nineteenth century makes it all the more remarkable!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Early feminist literature - memorable, Nov 21 2000

By	M. J. Smith (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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" deteriorates.

A slim volume, this story gives excellent insight into the culture and individuals who spurred the "first" women's movement.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Did the author even know what she was doing?
This was another book I had to read in women's writing. If I was teaching the class, I would not have included this. Read more

Published on May 3 2000 by Sean Ares Hirsch

5.0 out of 5 stars men and women's differences
I thought that the bookk was very good it should how men an women were treated back then, but in todays society people are treated the same

Published on Dec 18 1999 by Marci A. Strohl

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good, inspirational!
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, an American short story author, writes "The Yellow Wallpaper." In this literary work Gilman illustrates the unfortunate injustices women are... Read more

Published on Mar 30 1999