The Yellow Wallpaper/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Nightmare Fuel: A case has been made that the "Yellow Wallpaper" that the narrator is ripping off of the walls at the end is her own skin. It seems utterly ridiculous at first but then you consider the fact that, in literature, a cigar is not always just a cigar once you examine it closely enough...
  • Paranoia Fuel
  • Values Dissonance: It took how long for scholars to look at this work as a piece of feminist literature? Not very long, as the story was seen as responsible for the discrediting of the "rest cure" the narrator endures, within Charlotte Perkins Gilman's lifetime.
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