The Yellow Wallpaper
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Publisher Description
A great book is not just a series of events or characters spun together, but involves a vivid description of thoughts in a tangible fashion. The Yellow Wallpaper talks about the ordeal faced by the narrator in her new house, when she feels her husband just does not understand her, or may be pretends not to. She is forced to not do anything that makes her even more susceptible to imagining thing around her. The plot intensifies when she is draws a parallel between her life and what she is imagines and both the situations blend into each other. As a reader one can empathize with the way narrator feels by the excellent style of writing.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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.
