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The Yellow Wallpaper

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The Yellow Wallpaper

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Narrated by: Tony Walker
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The story is a double play: is it the story of a woman going mad, or a woman possessed by something evil? We begin to suspect that the narrator’s apparently caring husband John may not be as caring as she thinks. Is he trying to control her? We know that Charlotte was much concerned with the emancipation of women and them achieving financial independence, so is the character of John an echo of this?

The horror in the story revolves around the Yellow Wallpaper and like many of us, she sees to have seen patterns in the abstract wallpaper that eventually evolve into characters. She ultimately can enter the wallpaper and more disturbingly, the woman from the wallpaper can come out into her room. The bizarreness of the crouching, creeping figures serves to unnerve the listener.

Public Domain (P)2020 Tony Walker Anthologies & Short Stories Classics Mystery Short Stories Fiction Scary Detective
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Why is this book, written by a woman, about a woman, who is the principal (only) character and the narrator of the story... being read by a man??? Did no-one question that idea? I can't even listen so I can't comment on the audiobook. Only to say that it is a favourite book of mine, and I was so looking forward to listening to it... and I just cannot

read by a man!?

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