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Average rating3.9
I've always seen references to the yellow wallpaper everywhere, I finally got around to reading it and I wasn't disappointed. The fact that a book about women, the patriarchy, and mental health written in the 1800's can still hold up today and mean so much to us is both impressive and sad.
I first read the story for my English literature class and developed a weird hatred for it, but still wrote about it whenever I could—the themes are pretty explicit. I recently re-read it and I've warmed quite a bit on it. It's a seminal early feminist story, but it's also quite good