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The Yellow Wallpaper
My 20 year old daughter made some kind of comment about "yellow wallpaper" the other day, assuming I was "in the know."
She was shocked when I had no clue what she was talking about.
She said, "All well-read people have read 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman." It was written in 1899.
Hmph!
So, I read it.....and I am now part of the "well-read" club 
(Not really, until I have read Dickens, my kids will not let me in the club.  )
So, this got me wondering if any of YOU have read this short story that "everyone" has read?
Here is a link.....it will not take too long.
The Yellow Wallpaper
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I read it in high school - maybe I read it in college again. Without having followed your links, I don't remember too much of it except a feeling of creepiness.
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I read it in college, getting my B.A. in English Lit.  (Still had to do some American). I remember liking it at the time, but she was a little different. She wrote a novelette called Herland about an island colony of women, who had somehow become able to reproduce asexually.
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I read it in college too...that story is pretty good, but Charlotte Perkins Gilman herself was a pioneer of the feminist and eugenics movement that bred such women as Margaret Sanger. I'd be very careful about reading too much of her--and definitely steer clear of Herland.
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missionfamily wrote:
| I read it in college too...that story is pretty good, but Charlotte Perkins Gilman herself was a pioneer of the feminist and eugenics movement that bred such women as Margaret Sanger. I'd be very careful about reading too much of her--and definitely steer clear of Herland. |
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Ugh, yes! We were required to read *Herland* in high school (the 70's!) and I remember hating it. don't think I read the yellow wallpaper, though.
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CatholicMommy wrote:
I read it in high school - maybe I read it in college again. Without having followed your links, I don't remember too much of it except a feeling of creepiness.
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Ditto.
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As I recall it was basically a story about a stay-at-home mom type who goes insane. I always wondered if it was meant to describe postpartum depression.
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DD and I read it for Bravewriter in the 11th grade. We both thought it was weird.
Chari, I didn't know you hadn't read Dickens. David Copperfield is one of the best books of all time!!
C'mon...if you read it I'll read Jane Eyre.
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momwise wrote:
Chari, I didn't know you hadn't read Dickens. David Copperfield is one of the best books of all time!!
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I've never finished David copperfield, though I didn't give up b/c it wasn't good. I think I was listening on audio and it was due back at the library  and I got distracted by something else, probably Jane Eyre, which is THE best book IMO.
However, right now I'm listening to Nicholas Nickleby, another Dickens novel. I think the only Dickens I've ever read all the way through are A Christmas Carol multiple times, and A Tale of Two Cities, required in high school, which turned me off to Dickens!
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The only short story that I remember the name of that I liked though it left you unsettled was "To Build a Fire" by Jack London (I just got this to reread for the first time in 25 years though parts of the story are still quite clear in my memory)
And I remember another more classic writer (Poe?) and a room with a heart beating.. but I can't recall the actual name of the thing.
I'll have to go read that one to see if I've read it before
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bizarre story.. it does sound rather familiar.. did you read the link on that page with the story where there's an article about why she wrote the story?
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JodieLyn wrote:
And I remember another more classic writer (Poe?) and a room with a heart beating.. but I can't recall the actual name of the thing.
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The Tell-Tale Heart... the personal narration of a man in the process of murdering his boss, waiting in the pitch-darkness for hours to make sure the victim is really truly asleep and not faking it. Then the body is (how do I put this nicely?) split into many pieces and hidden, with the heart under the floorboards. And when the police arrive, the heart (the man's conscience) is beating louder and louder, until finally he loses all of his cool and confesses everything.
Had to read that one in high school too. I wasn't that impressed with that one either.  Isn't there better literature out there?
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ah yes, that's it.. I knew it was something about the heart but I couldn't dredge up enough to remember anything other than the heart beating in the room.
The Jack London one I referenced.. the unsettled part, just for those that wonder, I think was the absolute unforgivingness of errors that nature can show in her harshness. That sometimes you don't get that second chance.
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