The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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The Yellow Wallpaper

Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Narrator: Tony Walker

Unabridged: 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/17/2020

Synopsis

The story is a double play: is it the story of a woman going mad, or a woman possessed by something evil? We begin to suspect that the narrator’s apparently caring husband John, may not be as caring as she thinks. Is he trying to control her? We know that Charlotte was much concerned with the emancipation of women and them achieving financial independence, so is the character of John an echo of this?

The horror in the story revolves around the Yellow Wallpaper and like many of us, she sees to have seen patterns in the abstract wallpaper that eventually evolve into characters. She ultimately can enter the wallpaper and more disturbingly, the woman from the wallpaper can come out into her room. The bizarreness of the crouching, creeping figures serves to unnerve the reader.

About Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was an American feminist, author, and social critic who wrote several novels, over two hundred short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Gilman spent much of her youth in Providence, Rhode Island, and was frequently in the presence of her father's family, which included Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the famous suffragist Isabella Beecher Hooker. From 1909 to 1916, Gilman wrote and edited her own magazine, the Forerunner, in which much of her fiction appeared. Her large body of work, which examines the economic and social position of women in society, includes the semi-autobiographical short story "The Yellow Wallpaper," the feminist utopian novel Herland, the poetry volume In This World, the nonfiction work Women and Economics, and her posthumously published autobiography, The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ana on March 24, 2021

3 stars *may change my mom randomly sent me a copy of this so i thought i might as well give it a shot......more

Goodreads review by Abtin on November 23, 2020

The Yellow Wallpaper is haunting and evocative, and well worth whatever efforts are needed to read it. It is so far ahead of its time not only in structure but in subject matter. Go read it! The rest of the short stories in the book are also enjoyable, especially whenever she starts talking about bus......more

Goodreads review by Kara on June 01, 2014

It's unbelievable how pertinent these short stories are today, over 100 years since they we're written. Five stars for all of the short stories. I loved them all. But the book also contained essays. And while Charlotte Perkins Gilman was clearly a remarkable woman--ahead of her time, brilliant, and l......more

Goodreads review by Rick on December 24, 2019

This collection gives a good sense of the range of Gilman’s work, starting with her very disturbing short story, The Yellow Wallpaper, which operates as a straight-up horror story, as well as a commentary on the denial of the chance for productive work that women experience in patriarchal society. Th......more

Goodreads review by Daryl on April 16, 2024

(4.75) Pulled an absurd amount of quotes from this collection of stories/chapters. CPG may be remembered as a questionable character in some significant regards, however her commentary on human-ness and its link to womanhood is timeless and important.......more

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