The Yellow Wallpaper

This is one of my favorite stories to read.  The reason for this is because you are able to really understand how desperate Gilman, or any woman deemed “sick” became.  I appreciate how the wallpaper became a reflection of her thoughts about her life.  For many years that was all I thought about this story.  However this is the second quarter in a row that I have had a professor use this story as part if the class. 

What is exciting about this is that one was a sociology class, the other this class.  In the sociology class this story was used to show how a woman who became one of the first woman sociologist from the responses she received from the public and how that shaped her future writing and thinking.  That combined with the information presented about the era Gilman lived in and more information about her actual treatment really opened my eyes to this story.  Before I was oblivious the cry of help and change that is laced all through out the story of this seemingly innocent wallpaper.