
Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrenched this small literary masterpiece from her own experience. Narrated with superb psychological skill & dramatic precision it tells the story of a nameless woman driven mad by enforced confinement after the birth of her child. Isolated in a colonial mansion in the middle of nowhere forced to sleep in an attic nursery with barred windows & sickly yellow wallpaper secretly she does what she has to do
- she writes. She craves intellectual stimulation activity loving understanding instead she is ordered to her bedroom to rest & 'pull herself together'. Here slowly but surely the tortuous pattern of the wallpaper winds its way into the recesses of her mind...