‘Looking for a minor Halloween style short story to read? Pick this one!’
This week we read The Yellow Wallpaper, a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. We read it so that we could compare it with Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar for our coursework. Man is that story creepy! It’s highlighting the mistreatment of those with mental illness before we really had an understanding.
Gilman herself did have depression for a time and was actually told that the best thing to do was have no mental stimulation, no writing, ultimately do nothing. What really annoys me is that if you have a creative mind then you’ll need an outlet for all the knowledge swirling around your head; it can’t just be repressed. I loved the story but it did weird me out!
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