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.
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."
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原來作者也沒有說是為瞭申揚女權主義。 我覺得很多時候一個人的想法和感受,是很難讓人完全去感受到的。 每個人都知道失戀很難過,也會說要怎麼度過,可是每個人失戀的時候,還是會痛悼死去活來。 事情不是發生在自己身上,是理解不瞭當事人的感受的。 子非魚,焉知魚之樂...
評分原來作者也沒有說是為瞭申揚女權主義。 我覺得很多時候一個人的想法和感受,是很難讓人完全去感受到的。 每個人都知道失戀很難過,也會說要怎麼度過,可是每個人失戀的時候,還是會痛悼死去活來。 事情不是發生在自己身上,是理解不瞭當事人的感受的。 子非魚,焉知魚之樂...
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評分你還以為你已經掌握瞭它,但當你一切準備就緒開始跟蹤它時,它嚮後翻瞭個跟鬥,而你正好站在它後麵。它打瞭你一記耳光,把你擊倒在地,用腳踩住瞭你的身體。這簡直就像是一場惡夢……
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