Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, The Yellow Wallpaper, is a masterpiece in psychological writing from the earlier century. It is an exploration of the thoughts inside a depressed person's mind and also a depiction of the condition of mental health, specially of women in earlier eras. Gilman achieved the difficult art of putting on paper the jumbled thoughts inside someone who has too many at ones ranging from a ball of entangled wool to "fantasies" or real struggle the person faces when the thoughts lead to real and unwanted repurcussions. With the use of a small thing, like a yellow wallpaper, as all great writers do Gilman successfully weaved a story that makes the reader both enagaged to know what happens to the protagonist who has become hyperfixated upon it while dreading her spiral into madness and hoping for her to come out it without use since there looks no such hope as her friends and family continue to negate her whole experience trivialize it.
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