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Public post in the reader discussion for The Yellow Wallpaper.

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. What are your thoughts on it?

By snow-story5

I’m not trying to get anyone to do my homework for me—I actually have to deal with that part myself. I just wanna know how other people read it, since I’m honestly not sure what I was supposed to pull from it. I get that there’s supposed to be a feminist angle and that our class will probably zoom in on that and overanalyze it. But when I read it, I didn’t really notice all that. It just felt like a creepy look at someone really starting to lose it, like a scary story through the eyes of an unstable woman who might not be reliable. If you’ve read it, what did you think? Did you go with what it seemed like on the surface, or did you catch a bigger message I missed?