| Author: | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | ISBN: | 1230001832570 |
| Publisher: | Chris Tiger | Publication: | September 1, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
| ISBN: | 1230001832570 |
| Publisher: | Chris Tiger |
| Publication: | September 1, 2017 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman (Jane) whose physician husband (John) has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden from working and has to hide her journal from him, so she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency," a diagnosis common to women in that period. The windows of the room are barred, and there is a gate across the top of the stairs, allowing her husband to control her access to the rest of the house.
Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman (Jane) whose physician husband (John) has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden from working and has to hide her journal from him, so she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency," a diagnosis common to women in that period. The windows of the room are barred, and there is a gate across the top of the stairs, allowing her husband to control her access to the rest of the house.
