The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 26 passages
John is a physician, and perhaps I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead...
40 wordsI sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus but...
42 wordsThe most beautiful place. It is quite alone, standing well back from the road, quite three miles...
52 wordsHe said we came here solely on my account, that I was to have perfect rest and all the air I could...
59 wordsIt is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and...
50 wordsThe paint and paper look as if a boys school had used it. It is stripped off the paper in great...
59 wordsIt is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate, and...
45 wordsOut of another I get a lovely view of the bay and a little private wharf belonging to the estate....
60 wordsIt is so discouraging not to have any advice and companionship about my work. When I get really...
57 wordsI get positively angry with the impertinence of it and the everlastingness. Up and down and...
52 wordsI never saw so much expression in an inanimate thing before, and we all know how much expression...
50 wordsThe furniture in this room is no worse than inharmonious, however, for we had to bring it all from...
51 wordsThen the floor is scratched and gouged and splintered, the plaster itself is dug out here and...
40 wordsWell, the Fourth of July is over. The people are gone and I am tired out. John thought it might do...
42 wordsI lie here on this great immovable bed it is nailed down, I believe and follow that pattern about...
70 wordsThere is one end of the room where it is almost intact, and there, when the cross lights fade and...
53 wordsDear John. He loves me very dearly, and hates to have me sick. I tried to have a real earnest...
47 wordsThe repairs are not done at home, and I cannot possibly leave town just now. Of course if you were...
65 wordsMy darling, said he, I beg of you, for my sake and for our childs sake, as well as for your own,...
67 wordsSo of course I said no more on that score, and we went to sleep before long. He thought I was...
48 wordsYou think you have mastered it, but just as you get well under way in following, it turns a back...
44 wordsI have watched John when he did not know I was looking, and come into the room suddenly on the most...
45 wordsShe didnt know I was in the room, and when I asked her in a quiet, a very quiet voice, with the...
55 wordsBut there is something else about that paper the smell. I noticed it the moment we came into the...
53 wordsThere is a very funny mark on this wall, low down, near the mopboard. A streak that runs round the...
45 wordsShe tried to get me out of the room it was too patent. But I said it was so quiet and empty and...
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