The Yellow Wallpaper

No more than a few weeks ago, I came across this eerie short story. How? Just randomly. "The Yellow Wallpaper" was penned by an American writer named Charlotte Perkins Gilman. You may read the story here. It is written in first person as journal entries. It is about a woman who has been confined to an upstairs bedroom by her physician husband in order to aide her of her depression. She becomes obsessive over the yellow wallpaper in the room due to the lack of stimulation she is exposed to in her confinement. She begins to imagine women creeping in the patterns of the wallpaper and believes that she is one of them. She becomes even more insane as the story progresses. Mrs. Gilman wrote the story based on her own experience as a patient. She too was put on a "rest cure" for her depression. She couldn't do anything to stimulating except for 2 hours a day! I myself would have gone insane if I had to forego that kind of treatment. It was a very interesting read. Go ahead and check it out for yourself!