A woman goes to the countryside with her husband and baby after a post-partum nervous breakdown that leaves her husband overly-attentive and dismissive and condescending. Not allowed to write, or really do much of anything, the narrator slowly begins to lose her grip on what is real. She begins to see things, strange things, in the yellow wallpaper of the nursery she stays in. What starts off as perhaps well-intentioned turns horrific.

Feminismus von 1892, we love it <3 Wer braucht Hamlet als Schullektüre, wenn man The Yellow Wallpaper lesen könnte!?! Diese Kurzgeschichte zeigt allen die sagen, Frauen hätten damals nur sehr wenig und schon gar nichts von Belang oder mit emotionaler Tiefe geschrieben, den Mittelfinger. Sprachlich, erzählerisch und inhaltlich eine der besten und bewegendsten Kurzgeschichten, die ich je gelesen habe!!

I was genuinely impressed with how much the author was able to write and describe the wallpaper. She did it in a way that was creepy and descriptive. The short story was published in the 1800s and when reading you can tell women back then we’re disregarding constantly. Jane is always disregarded when telling her husbands John about her sickness. He didn’t believe that there was anything wrong physical wrong with her and dismissed her. This to me was insane. It just highlights that women’s problems were dismissed despite severely struggling. All this was caused by bed rest and it really goes to show that being on it and never allowed to leave due to your “health” can cause more harm then good. The best short story I’ve read.

It was strange but not bad, following a woman slowly descending into madness. You can really tell by every "chapter" how she is slowly losing her mind. The story is inspired by a severe case of postpartum depression and although I didn't think the depressed part was quite that clear, the madness was definitely good. But all in all, it was just too short and strange for me to really enjoy

Can you blame my girly to decend into madness when she is treated the way she is by her wanker of a husband? And on top of it she has to look day and night at this ugly as shade of yellow wallpaper, which I'm not convinced, hasn't grown mold. Sometimes I'm really glad that universities make you read classics. What a gem. 💛

So at some point I thought "oh this is finally getting interesting" and got a slight creepy feeling - then I turned the page and read "the end". Before that it wasn't at all what I'd expected and made me feel nothing. I can appreciate this book for the time period it was written in and I've been thinking about the ending from time to time, that's why it got a 2 star rating.

read my complete review here: http://isabellsbooks.blogspot.de/ MY OPINION ON THE BOOK I was quite surprised by how short this story actually is. In this edition it is only 35 pages long and reads itself even quicker because of the few sentences that are actually placed on one page. You can definitely read through it in about 15 minutes. I can definitely recommend this edition to you, although I didn't like it at all at first, because of the ugly colour of the cover. This dislike was actually intentional, because the whole story is exactly about the dislike of that colour and therefore also about the dislike of that cover, since that represents the wallpaper. When I read the title, I didn't actually think that the story would be about an actual yellow wallpaper and was therefore very surprised by how frequent the wallpaper was indeed mentioned in the story. Because of that, I really enjoyed having the yellow wallpaper on the cover and therefore being able to have a look at it every time it was mentioned by the narrator; so I could compare the cover to the wallpaper described in the story. The "relationship" between the narrator and the yellow wallpaper was the most interesting part of the story for me. I really liked the way in which the narrator managed to inflict such a disgust for that wallpaper in me that I wanted to tear it apart myself. This impulse made me want for the narrator to tear it down herself so badly that I questioned why she felt so restrained in doing it. It made me understand that she also incredibly much wanted to tear it down but felt like she shouldn't or couldn't do so. Reflecting on that had a very powerful impact on me, because it made me see her restrained self better. I also found it quite fascinating how the issue that the narrator had with the wallpaper seemed to creep in more and more - often throughout the whole book until it completely took over all of the narrator's attention. That portrayed a very conflicting image of the narrator's attitude towards it. All the minor characters but her husband seemed very unclear to me and I didn't quite understand what role they were supposed to play. I think it's very fascinating and groundbreaking that a woman wrote this story in the late 19th century. The ending and the last pages that led up to it were a bit weird. They left a lot open to the imagination and I think as a reader one can fill in a lot of blanks and interpret the story in very different ways. CONCLUSION I really enjoyed the beginning, where I was a bit confused as to what to think of the story, and also the middle, in which the presence of the wallpaper grew more intense and prominent. Unfortunately, the story lost me at the end because I couldn't really understand it anymore and could just guess as to what the ending should mean. To clear up the meaning of the story a bit more, I can definitely recommend this edition of the book to you, since it provides the reader with more information about the author and draws some parallels between the narrator in the story and the author's actual life; and therefore gives more inside to the story. MY RATING I award this story with 3 out of 5 stars.

So at some point I thought "oh this is finally getting interesting" and got a slight creepy feeling - then I turned the page and read "the end". Before that it wasn't at all what I'd expected and made me feel nothing. I can appreciate this book for the time period it was written in and I've been thinking about the ending from time to time, that's why it got a 2 star rating.

So at some point I thought "oh this is finally getting interesting" and got a slight creepy feeling - then I turned the page and read "the end". Before that it wasn't at all what I'd expected and made me feel nothing. I can appreciate this book for the time period it was written in and I've been thinking about the ending from time to time, that's why it got a 2 star rating.