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Violence
Barely any
No violence; the horror is entirely internal
Language
Barely any
Victorian literary prose; no profanity
Sexual Content
Barely any
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
None
Emotional Intensity
Very heavy
The extreme and relentless psychological deterioration of the narrator is one of the most intense in the literary canon; the horror comes entirely from the first-person dissolution of a mind
What this book is about
A woman suffering from post-partum depression is prescribed 'rest cure' by her physician husband—confinement to a room with yellow wallpaper. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 short story is one of American literature's most devastating first-person accounts of psychological deterioration under medical control, and a foundational feminist text.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Extreme psychological intensity throughout—one of literature's most disturbing accounts of mental breakdown
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