yellow wallpaper

Presents vital information on the most-studied short stories at the high school and early-college levels. Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

Presents a biography on the late author that focuses on the real events that inspired the famous work, "The Yellow Wall-Paper, " along with the author's views on the work's true inspiration and meaning.

Contains the text of "The Yellow Wallpaper" in which a young woman loses her mind after her husband forces her to spend her days in a room with strange wallpaper; includes information that places the novel in its historical and cultural context.