The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Narrator: Cathy Dobson
Pages: 4
Published by Tantor Media
Publication Date March 28th 2011
Goodreads
Enjoy 7 thought-provoking stories that employ charm and humor to examine relations between the sexes from a feminist perspective. In addition to the title story, an 1892 classic that recounts a woman's descent into madness, this collection includes such masterful stories as "Cottagette," "Turned," "Mr. Peebles' Heart," and more.
Review
The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story of a women with postpartum depression. However, as it is the 1800s her husband assumes it is “nerves” and that she is slowly going mad. The story takes places in the space of one room with you guessed it — yellow wallpaper. Her desent and obesseion with the room’s decor leads the plot and held my attention, until the abrupt ending. The Yellow Wallpaper was well written and reminded me of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. My one complaint is that I wasn’t crazy about the narrator, Cathy Dobson. Her voice was a little wobbly and it was almost as if it was being played by a victrola. Overall, I enjoyed this small sampling to a classic horror tale,
Rating
Reading this book contributed to these challenges:
Nice review. Sad that the narrator wasn’t good for this book.