The Yellow Wallpaper was one trippy novella(?).
Her(the main character) imagination ran away from her due to being "bored" or rather, locked away from everything. I had a similar experience when I was really young. Somehow I managed to convince myself that I had never been outside in my life(even though I had), and was locked within a building with many windows. It was a very odd sensation. So I kind of understand how the main character was feeling. You are filled with this desperateness to get out, and all you have is your mind. It's rather frightening.
I think that Gilman told the story through the captive's perspective because it described exactly how she felt, and the reader understood her descent into madness and how it came about. It was like YOU were the narrator. I think she went mad because she probably underwent postpartum depression, and her husband made it worse by treating her like a child and not listening to her, and then it just went downhill from there.
After reading this short story, I felt very odd. My thoughts were disjointed and jumpy, and I was slightly skittish, kinda like how I am when I hear the Xfiles theme.
It also reminded me of Brave New World where everyone has no stimulation for the mind, and they are all practically children in their thinking processes. Then comes along a "savage" and everything goes crazy.
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