Comments on: H246: The Yellow Wallpaper by Theater 10:30 http://www.relicradio.com/otr/2010/09/h246-the-yellow-wallpaper-by-theater-1030-2/ Experience Radio's Golden Age! Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:38:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Sunny http://www.relicradio.com/otr/2010/09/h246-the-yellow-wallpaper-by-theater-1030-2/#comment-231 Sunny Sat, 26 Mar 2011 01:07:14 +0000 http://otr.relicradio.com/?p=1404#comment-231 Gail, I listened to this again and did some research on itt also. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who wrote this story, based it off her own post-partum depression and continued “nervous problems”. It is actually a mark in history during the late 1800s when the attitude towards “nervous” problmes of women were considered ridculous, non-existant. Basically the physician husband confined her to a room with lurid wallpaper, forbid her to write or do anything outside base rest and domesticity, wouldn’t let her even see her child, and the end she focused on the wallpaper and put her mind into it until it drove hopelessly insane. As Jim said, she “thought” she was behind the wallpaper, and she was mad, insane. basically when her husband came home and saw the clawing, biting, crazy woman and the distruction in the room, he fainted from the shock. This is a very important story in history and has been studies and discussed for years,, with much scholarly writings to be researched. it is fascinating and important to us. I hope you will read more, and perhaps read the original story with much more detail. Following is the Google link where volumes of information on this can be found.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1W1RNTN_en&q=charlotte+perkins+gilman%27s+the+yellow+wallpaper+summary&aq=0&aqi=g1g-v5g-j4&aql=&oq=Charlotte+Perkins+Gilman%27s%2C+%22The+Yellow+Wallpaper%22

Enjoy reading more about this wonderful story.

]]> By: Jim http://www.relicradio.com/otr/2010/09/h246-the-yellow-wallpaper-by-theater-1030-2/#comment-230 Jim Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:20:14 +0000 http://otr.relicradio.com/?p=1404#comment-230 I think she thinks she was behind the wallpaper. They do leave the ending a bit open. The posting on wikipedia for this story leaves her circling the room on all fours, crawling over the fainted man on each lap. Here’s that wiki article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Wallpaper

]]> By: Gail http://www.relicradio.com/otr/2010/09/h246-the-yellow-wallpaper-by-theater-1030-2/#comment-229 Gail Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:17:10 +0000 http://otr.relicradio.com/?p=1404#comment-229 What happened at the end of The Yellow Wallpaper? It is bugging us.
Did she hang herself?? Please settle the argument. I think she was stuck behind the wallpaper.

]]> By: Jim http://www.relicradio.com/otr/2010/09/h246-the-yellow-wallpaper-by-theater-1030-2/#comment-228 Jim Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:00:10 +0000 http://otr.relicradio.com/?p=1404#comment-228 You’re welcome.

]]> By: Debra Bledsoe http://www.relicradio.com/otr/2010/09/h246-the-yellow-wallpaper-by-theater-1030-2/#comment-227 Debra Bledsoe Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:00:10 +0000 http://otr.relicradio.com/?p=1404#comment-227 AMAZING! I was so excited back in Nov. to see there was a radio program of this wonderful short story… thank you!

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