The Yellow Wallpaper

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper

THE YELLOW WALLPAPER

By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity—but that would be asking too much of fate!

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So I take phosphates or phosphites—whichever it is, and tonics, and journeys, and air, and exercise, and am absolutely forbidden to "work" until I am well again.

Personally, I disagree with their ideas.

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