Around ten minutes in when she's describing the room it sounds as if other children had been locked up in that room before her. Heavy but beautifully written story!
Actually, she was quite sane enough, but a victim of wrongful confinement. Its a writers syndrome itself to overthink, over imagine and write as much. if you look at the tone of her writing, its conversational. meaning it shows her wish to speak to someone, but who can she speak to when she is confined in a room she detest and the people she is in contact with just didn't get her. What can be more frustrating than that? Her way of coping strategy was making a women escape from that wallpaper. Maybe that was what she wanted hetself--to be free from this horrible room. Out and really free to do what she really wants to do. Write for readers, have fun and a little life. Treatment for mental illness or disorder never works unless the patient is convinced with the method of treatment. when they just aren't happy and are forced to follow a regime, a catharisis of this kind is bound to happen.
+Raveena S I think she is suffering from Postpartum depression. The story is set in the early to mid 19th century, during which time it was thought to be just a temporary nervous depression, that with a popular treatment known as the rest cure would cure them of their blues. During this "Rest Cure" women usually weren't allowed to read, write, feed themselves, or be allowed to talk to people who weren't in their circle (nurse, maid, or husband typically).
That's the surface level explanation, though the way that the room is described and the way people treat her makes me think that it probably has feminist undertones. The bars on the windows supposedly for children, and the rings attached to the walls for "excercise equipment" and totally not for shackling people to the walls, sounds an awefully lot like an old prison. And the way people treat her, the men especially, is infantilizing as all hell. Making her feel ungrateful, as her husband was so loving and caring, despite the fact that she was imprisoned and given improper treatment for her condition. Probably sounds like a stretch now, but back then there was little a woman could do without a man unless her own man passes away.
@@andylovsU Yes!!! Thank goodness she saved herself in real life. Unpopular back then to divorce your husband, but that's what she did and left him. Then became happy, successful, and stayed in a non-toxic marriage for 30+ years until his passing.
@@zeyode yes, the bars for children, John carrying her up to bed and making her lie down after meals, all infantilizing her. Her writing would stimulate her and help her work through her depression. While HELP with care of the baby until she gets the hang of it would be great, she would do better being allowed to take part in mothering him. But she is given nothing to do but stare at the wallpaper.
I heard the author drew on personal experience for this story. She hoped to expose this type of "therapy" and, apparently, she was successful in her endeavor.
She said in an article that she did experience some depression, but it was not about her. Like you stated, she wanted to expose what women feel or experience. Men still disregarded women but, I guess it's like bricks laying the foundation, gotta keep stacking the stories until some day...
Hmm. In some ways, listening to her development into madness, this is an interesting story. However, in other ways, I really expected a more climactic conclusion.
I found it fitting, because to the author and the one experiencing that shift into madness, the change is so subtle and gentle. Like a slow dip into a warm spring until it becomes boiling. Losing your grip on reality isn't instant and doesn't usually result in something large and dramatic (like movies show). The picture of her having to step over his body to continue her wandering about the room is eerie.
This story is feminist commentary on the treatment of women during the Victorian era. It exemplifies how a woman, neglected, belittled, and, dismissed descends into insanity.
@@tinabaker4662 Study the author and why she wrote it. fakingdeep's and A R 's assessments are spot on. She wrote it from experience and to make a point about the treatments that were being given women. She was a fighting humanist/feminist, advocate, and way before her time in her ideals. She was incredible. Currently, we see this happening a lot through stereotypes by mocking women's emotions with words like "crazy," making fun of their intelligence with words like "bitch," dismissing their efforts with belittlement, and gaslighting within relationships with representations of the patriarchy.
She had postpartum depression and became obsessed with the yellow wallpaper, and her tearing up the wallpaper is a reflection of herself wanting to escape. Hope this helps
Took me a minute to understand she wasn't saying "breath" but "breadth". The other word sounds like freeze but is actually "frieze"--a broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration, especially on a wall near the ceiling.
So the narrator was the woman behind the wallpaper? Like those types of movies where said protagonist sees a bad person only for the viewer/supportive character/and/or protag only for it to be the protagonist all along?
@@JuliaN-fi9zw thanks for the reply! I had a feeling that was her, based on a summary I saw on this story, but wanted to be sure. This is a clever way to show a person's sanity leaving without outright saying it.
@@jge8144 yup! The author basically used the narrator as a commentary on how women were treated back then. If you read the narration at the beginning it just straight up tells you. In this one specifically the narrator is a woman suffering from postpartum depression and her doctor prescribes “rest” which is basically no socialization, freedom, thinking, writing, etc. bc of this and her illness not being taken seriously she becomes the woman in the wall
She reads this story like she wrote it. I really enjoyed it.
we stan a woman who creeps by daylight
😂😂😂
this comment is underrated
I don't get it
Around ten minutes in when she's describing the room it sounds as if other children had been locked up in that room before her. Heavy but beautifully written story!
So now im gonna wait til the morning to listen, lol. 12am rt now😳scary
Actually, she was quite sane enough, but a victim of wrongful confinement. Its a writers syndrome itself to overthink, over imagine and write as much. if you look at the tone of her writing, its conversational. meaning it shows her wish to speak to someone, but who can she speak to when she is confined in a room she detest and the people she is in contact with just didn't get her. What can be more frustrating than that? Her way of coping strategy was making a women escape from that wallpaper. Maybe that was what she wanted hetself--to be free from this horrible room. Out and really free to do what she really wants to do. Write for readers, have fun and a little life. Treatment for mental illness or disorder never works unless the patient is convinced with the method of treatment. when they just aren't happy and are forced to follow a regime, a catharisis of this kind is bound to happen.
+Raveena S I think she is suffering from Postpartum depression. The story is set in the early to mid 19th century, during which time it was thought to be just a temporary nervous depression, that with a popular treatment known as the rest cure would cure them of their blues. During this "Rest Cure" women usually weren't allowed to read, write, feed themselves, or be allowed to talk to people who weren't in their circle (nurse, maid, or husband typically).
That's the surface level explanation, though the way that the room is described and the way people treat her makes me think that it probably has feminist undertones. The bars on the windows supposedly for children, and the rings attached to the walls for "excercise equipment" and totally not for shackling people to the walls, sounds an awefully lot like an old prison. And the way people treat her, the men especially, is infantilizing as all hell. Making her feel ungrateful, as her husband was so loving and caring, despite the fact that she was imprisoned and given improper treatment for her condition.
Probably sounds like a stretch now, but back then there was little a woman could do without a man unless her own man passes away.
It's called gas lighting, that's what this is about
@@andylovsU Yes!!! Thank goodness she saved herself in real life. Unpopular back then to divorce your husband, but that's what she did and left him. Then became happy, successful, and stayed in a non-toxic marriage for 30+ years until his passing.
@@zeyode yes, the bars for children, John carrying her up to bed and making her lie down after meals, all infantilizing her.
Her writing would stimulate her and help her work through her depression.
While HELP with care of the baby until she gets the hang of it would be great, she would do better being allowed to take part in mothering him. But she is given nothing to do but stare at the wallpaper.
I heard the author drew on personal experience for this story. She hoped to expose this type of "therapy" and, apparently, she was successful in her endeavor.
She said in an article that she did experience some depression, but it was not about her. Like you stated, she wanted to expose what women feel or experience. Men still disregarded women but, I guess it's like bricks laying the foundation, gotta keep stacking the stories until some day...
oh my god listening to this with headphones on every time she pronounced an “S” my ears were bleeding
YES
Omg same
Mia Redwine true there
Hmm. In some ways, listening to her development into madness, this is an interesting story. However, in other ways, I really expected a more climactic conclusion.
Reading it on your own does it better for me.
I found it fitting, because to the author and the one experiencing that shift into madness, the change is so subtle and gentle. Like a slow dip into a warm spring until it becomes boiling. Losing your grip on reality isn't instant and doesn't usually result in something large and dramatic (like movies show). The picture of her having to step over his body to continue her wandering about the room is eerie.
I was supposed to read this for english but im lazy so thanks for reading it instead:)
This should be read more, such a masterpiece! I got chills at the ending!
Thank you so much! This was so helpful. You read that with emotion and grabbed my attention throughout this story. 😊
What a lovely reading of this classic tale.. thankyou! 👍
Thank you so much! It was an awesome reading, I enjoyed the story more thanks to you.
About the story,,
"I've got out at last."
Y E S GIRLLLLL
This story is feminist commentary on the treatment of women during the Victorian era. It exemplifies how a woman, neglected, belittled, and, dismissed descends into insanity.
Things don't change a lot since then
Nonsense
@@tinabaker4662 Study the author and why she wrote it. fakingdeep's and A R 's assessments are spot on. She wrote it from experience and to make a point about the treatments that were being given women. She was a fighting humanist/feminist, advocate, and way before her time in her ideals. She was incredible. Currently, we see this happening a lot through stereotypes by mocking women's emotions with words like "crazy," making fun of their intelligence with words like "bitch," dismissing their efforts with belittlement, and gaslighting within relationships with representations of the patriarchy.
BEST short story ever! ♥ Freaks me out so much! XD I always love when this comes up in class! Thank you so much for sharing this! ♥
19:48 omg that noise scared me to death! Sounds like someone's laughing.. Creepy..
Thank you so much for making this!!!!
The reader sounds like Lunette from Big Comfy Couch and I can't stop hearing that
Who the hell is that?
I fell asleep (not literally)
Through this
I'm not sure I really understand what this is about a sick women that writes or a horrific wallpaper with s women trying to get out
thank you very much for uploading this!!!
am i the only one that listened to this and was just confused by the ending?
Yup! Only you...its a book for a little older aged people so u probably didnt get it
@@arrakis7132 ... a bit rude
@@arrakis7132 I’m 19 and I completely understood the entire story and the ending!
She had postpartum depression and became obsessed with the yellow wallpaper, and her tearing up the wallpaper is a reflection of herself wanting to escape. Hope this helps
@@mariamacruz107 thanks for the added details. I am planning on rereading this soon so hopefully I'll get it a second time around
Gaslighting? Anyone?
Thank you
That's the nature of fiction, you're not sure. Is she crazy does the wallpaper drive her crazy?
WeakneSS I SuppoSe then john took me up in hiS armS
Earl Productions read it yourself
The way the reader says her “s” ‘s hurts my ears
Like the pedo from family guy
What's a breath for freeze pattern
Took me a minute to understand she wasn't saying "breath" but "breadth". The other word sounds like freeze but is actually "frieze"--a broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration, especially on a wall near the ceiling.
Good story
I hav no idea of wat is even happening
Got homework to read so i went to thsi shit
Creepy, but good
Currently reading it 24:48
So the narrator was the woman behind the wallpaper? Like those types of movies where said protagonist sees a bad person only for the viewer/supportive character/and/or protag only for it to be the protagonist all along?
Yeah she basically dissolves into insanity as the story progresses and goes from being the Narrator to being the woman in the wall and loving the room
@@JuliaN-fi9zw thanks for the reply! I had a feeling that was her, based on a summary I saw on this story, but wanted to be sure. This is a clever way to show a person's sanity leaving without outright saying it.
@@jge8144 yup! The author basically used the narrator as a commentary on how women were treated back then. If you read the narration at the beginning it just straight up tells you. In this one specifically the narrator is a woman suffering from postpartum depression and her doctor prescribes “rest” which is basically no socialization, freedom, thinking, writing, etc. bc of this and her illness not being taken seriously she becomes the woman in the wall
"Long story short bish got crazy."
What is up with the whistling through her teeth
23:12
do we know who is narrating this?!
a ghost lady.
Who else here because they have to listen for English class
Wait I'm confused... 😂
same
S a m e
24:48
6:4
Euclid
Damn dawg. this shit slaps
She's reading this too fast.
Heather Jenkins read it yourself
Grady Kilgore I think she's reading it at a good pace
You can change the playback speed C:
Grady K no
You can slow it down
Lol
Dumb and boring story
16:30