The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper is a landmark short story of psychological fiction and feminist literature. Written as a series of journal entries, it follows a woman confined for her health whose obsession with the wallpaper in her room reveals the pressures of domestic control, medical authority, and silenced creativity. Compact, unsettling, and influential, it remains one of the essential American stories of the nineteenth century.