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The Yellow Wallpaper Quotes Biography

In this short story, the narrator is isolated in her room, with the express abolition of thinking, writing or reading. It's The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Here are a few quotes from the story.

"The color is repellent, almost revolting: a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight."
"This wallpaper has a kind of sub-pattern in a different shade, a particularly irritating one, for you can only se it in certain lights, and not clearly then."
"I'm getting really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper. Perhaps because of the wallpaper."
"There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will."
"You think you have mastered it, but just as you get well under way in following, it turns a back-somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you."
"It becomes bars! The outside pattern, I mean, and the women behind it is as plain as can be. I didn't realize for a long time what the thing was that showed behind, that dim sub-pattern, but now I am quite sure it is a woman. By daylight she is subdued, quiet. I fancy it is the pattern that keeps her so still."
"Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out. The front pattern does move-and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it!"
"For outside you have to creep on the ground, and everything is green instead of yellow. But here I can creep smoothly on the floor, and my shoulder just fits in that long smooch around the wall, so I cannot lose my way."

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