The Yellow Wallpaper
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Publisher Description
The narrator and her husband John rent a country estate for the summer. John orders the narrator to rest as much as possible to cure her depression and obeys her husband with reluctance. She decides to write during her stay but her family forbids it. Having no emotional support and left alone in her room she becomes obsessed with the wallpaper and is convinced there is someone trapped in it.
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Yuen leads listeners convincingly through this beautifully wrought 1892 short story. She begins the first-person narrative with the voice of a sensible if somewhat distraught young woman confined by her doctor husband to an attic room with hideous yellow wallpaper and bars on the windows. She is thought to have a nervous condition and is permitted no activity, including writing, lest it tire her. Eschewing melodrama, Yuen gradually changes tone and inflection as the weeks pass and the wife starts tearing down the wallpaper, perceives another woman behind it trying to get out, and finally descends into madness. It's a short, intoxicating listen that merits more than one replay.
