The Yellow Wallpaper Quotes

― charlotte perkins gilman, the yellow wallpaper and other stories. 25 of the best book quotes from the yellow wallpaper. The color is hideous enough and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough… the yellow wallpaper, entry 5.

The yellow wallpaper, entry 2 If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—what is one to do? The narrator begins by describing the large, ornate home that she and her husband, john, have rented for the summer.john is an extremely practical man, a physician, and their move into the country is partially motivated by his desire to expose.

Of course it is only nervousness.

“still i will proudly declare that there is something queer about it.”. The yellow wallpaper i sometimes fancy that in my condition if i had less opposition and more society and stimulus—but john says the very worst thing i can do is think about my condition, and i confess it always makes me feel bad. (page 131) upon her arrival to the house, the narrator notices something mysterious about the house. First entry quotes it is very seldom that mere ordinary people like john and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.