The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935) was a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were exceptional for women, and she served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper", which she wrote after a severe bout of post-partum depression.

出版者:BookSurge Classics

作者:Charlotte Perkins Gilman

页数:26

出版时间:2002-03-04

价格:USD 7.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9781591090373

图书标签:CharlottePerkinsGilman美国心理学女性抑郁症西方文学小说外国文学

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The story is written in the first person as a series of journal entries, the narrator a woman whose physician husband has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden from working, and has to hide her journal entries from him, so she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency," a diagnosis common to women in that period. The windows of the room are barred, and there is a gate across the top of the stairs, allowing her husband to control her access to the rest of the house.

The story depicts the effect of confinement on the narrator's mental health, and her descent into psychosis. With nothing to stimulate her, she becomes obsessed by the pattern and color of the wallpaper. "It is the strangest yellow, that wall-paper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw — not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things. But there is something else about that paper—the smell! ... The only thing I can think of that it is like is the color of the paper! A yellow smell."

In the end, she imagines there are women creeping around behind the patterns of the wallpaper, and comes to believe that she is one of them. She locks herself in the room, now the only place she feels safe, refusing to leave when the summer rental is up. "For outside you have to creep on the ground, and everything is green instead of yellow. But here I can creep smoothly on the floor, and my shoulder just fits in that long smooch around the wall, so I cannot lose my way."

读后感

比a room of one's own 好一点 因为没有那么长 其实是好很多 没有那么多生晦难懂的词 结局还挺confused 最后还是教授解释清楚的 也就是女权的那些破事吧 其实不是西方文学历史MAJOR的大可不必精读这种 那英国古代的语法 是很恶心的...了解一下是不错的 但是我个人觉得读了那么...  

比a room of one's own 好一点 因为没有那么长 其实是好很多 没有那么多生晦难懂的词 结局还挺confused 最后还是教授解释清楚的 也就是女权的那些破事吧 其实不是西方文学历史MAJOR的大可不必精读这种 那英国古代的语法 是很恶心的...了解一下是不错的 但是我个人觉得读了那么...  

"I've got out at last," said I, "in shitte of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!" Jane是谁呢？

用户评价

A must read for Amiercan Lit.

lives are confined always 四星

太可怕，簡直就是恐怖小說…ps女性永遠都是那麼的可憐。之前是肉體上的，現在是精神上的

Critical writing assignment ……

lives are confined always 四星