Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency” after the birth of her child, a woman is urged to rest for the summer in an old colonial mansion. Forbidden from doing work of any kind, she spends her days in the house’s former nursery, with its barred windows, scratched floor, and peeling yellow wallpaper. In a private journal, the woman records her growing obsession with the “horrid” wallpaper. Its strange pattern mutates in the moonlight, revealing what appears to be a human figure in the design. With nothing else to occupy her mind, the woman resolves to unlock the mystery of the wallpaper. Her quest, however, leads not to the truth, but into the darkest depths of madness.

This book is very short, it’s around 65 pages depending on what copy of this book you get.

The plot in this book was painfully bad. Because it is about a mentally fragile woman who over time slide into madness. The plot felt like it portrayed when as weak and is only able to relay on men to help them and make them happy. Which really made me very angry.

This book was very repetitive and it for the most part repeated the same thing over and over. Which really made me very uninterested and bored.

The ending here is very confusing, and after reading the ending 2 times I still have no idea what happened there because it was all over the place and very confusing.

The main character here was awful, because all she did in this book was either complain to her husband or cry over the wall-paper. Which really annoyed me very much so.

I Give This Book 1 / 5