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1、The Yellow Wallpaper 1 The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper 2 It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer A colonial mansion a hereditary estate I would say a haunted house and reach the height of romantic felic
2、ity but that would be asking too much of fate Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it Else why should it be let so cheaply And why have stood so long untenanted John laughs at me of course but one expects that in marriage John is practical in the extreme He has no patienc
3、e with faith an intense horror of superstition and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures John is a physician and PERHAPS I would not say it to a living soul of course but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind PERHAPS that is one reason I do
4、 not get well faster You see he does not believe I am sick And what can one do 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 My broth
5、er is also a physician and also of high standing and he says the same thing So I take phosphates or phosphites whichever it is and tonics and journeys and air and exercise and am absolutely forbidden to work until I am well again Personally I disagree with their ideas Personally I believe that conge
6、nial work with excitement and change would do me good But what is one to do I did write for a while in spite of them but it DOES exhaust me a good deal having to be so sly about it or else meet with heavy opposition I sometimes fancy that my condition if I had less opposition and more society and st
7、imulus but John says the very worst thing I can do is to think about my condition and I confess it always makes me feel bad The Yellow Wallpaper 3 So I will let it alone and talk about the house The most beautiful place It is quite alone standing well back from the road quite three miles from the vi
8、llage It makes me think of English places that you read about for there are hedges and walls and gates that lock and lots of separate little houses for the gardeners and people There is a DELICIOUS garden I never saw such a garden large and shady full of box bordered paths and lined with long grape
9、covered arbors with seats under them There were greenhouses too but they are all broken now There was some legal trouble I believe something about the heirs and coheirs anyhow the place has been empty for years That spoils my ghostliness I am afraid but I don t care there is something strange about
10、the house I can feel it I even said so to John one moonlight evening but he said what I felt was a DRAUGHT and shut the window I get unreasonably angry with John sometimes I m sure I never used to be so sensitive I think it is due to this nervous condition But John says if I feel so I shall neglect
11、proper self control so I take pains to control myself before him at least and that makes me very tired I don t like our room a bit I wanted one downstairs that opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window and such pretty old fashioned chintz hangings but John would not hear of it He said t
12、here was only one window and not room for two beds and no near room for him if he took another He is very careful and loving and hardly lets me stir without special direction I have a schedule prescription for each hour in the day he takes all care from me and so I feel basely ungrateful not to valu
13、e it more He said we came here solely on my account that I was to have perfect rest and all the air I could get Your exercise depends on your strength my dear said he and your food somewhat on your appetite but air you can absorb all the time So we took the nursery at the top of the house It is a bi
14、g airy room the whole floor nearly with windows that look all ways and air and sunshine galore It was nursery first and then The Yellow Wallpaper 4 playroom and gymnasium I should judge for the windows are barred for little children and there are rings and things in the walls The paint and paper loo
15、k as if a boys school had used it It is stripped off the paper in great patches all around the head of my bed about as far as I can reach and in a great place on the other side of the room low down I never saw a worse paper in my life One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artis
16、tic sin It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide plunge off at outrageous angles destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions The color is repelllent almost revolting a smouldering unclean yellow strangely faded by the slow turning sunlight It is a dull yet lurid orange in some places a sickly sulphur tint in others No wonder the
