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...

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I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus but...

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The most beautiful place. It is quite alone, standing well back from the road, quite three miles...

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He said we came here solely on my account, that I was to have perfect rest and all the air I could...

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It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and...

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The paint and paper look as if a boys school had used it. It is stripped off the paper in great...

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It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate, and...

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Out of another I get a lovely view of the bay and a little private wharf belonging to the estate....

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It is so discouraging not to have any advice and companionship about my work. When I get really...

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I get positively angry with the impertinence of it and the everlastingness. Up and down and...

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I never saw so much expression in an inanimate thing before, and we all know how much expression...

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The furniture in this room is no worse than inharmonious, however, for we had to bring it all from...

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Then the floor is scratched and gouged and splintered, the plaster itself is dug out here and...

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Well, the Fourth of July is over. The people are gone and I am tired out. John thought it might do...

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I lie here on this great immovable bed it is nailed down, I believe and follow that pattern about...

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There is one end of the room where it is almost intact, and there, when the cross lights fade and...

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Dear John. He loves me very dearly, and hates to have me sick. I tried to have a real earnest...

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The repairs are not done at home, and I cannot possibly leave town just now. Of course if you were...

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My darling, said he, I beg of you, for my sake and for our childs sake, as well as for your own,...

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So of course I said no more on that score, and we went to sleep before long. He thought I was...

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You think you have mastered it, but just as you get well under way in following, it turns a back...

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I have watched John when he did not know I was looking, and come into the room suddenly on the most...

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She didnt know I was in the room, and when I asked her in a quiet, a very quiet voice, with the...

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But there is something else about that paper the smell. I noticed it the moment we came into the...

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There is a very funny mark on this wall, low down, near the mopboard. A streak that runs round the...

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She 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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