![]() ![]() ![]() ‘The Yellow Wallpaper is a feminist text, but by writing it in the form of almost a horror story Gilman brings to light how horrifying male oppression can be and the devastating effect it can cause and serves as a reminder for this. ![]() In a work of fiction, the main character, or heroine, personifies the social struggle against the patriarchy. For a text to be a feminist text it must be written by a woman, and it will point out deficiencies in society regarding equal opportunity, and the reader will typically be aware of this motive in the text. Early readers read the story as a shocking horror and it wasn’t until the rediscovery of ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ in the early 1970s that it was appreciated as an indictment of Victorian patriarchy. It follows a woman’s deterioration at the hands of her husband’s prescription of the ‘rest cure’ which is ultimately detrimental to her recovery. The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story published by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892 and has since been described as ‘An American Feminist classic’ (Lanser). ![]()
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