The Yellow Wallpaper
What is the invisible wall that suppresses and confines my true voice under the guise of protecting me?
📝ONGO's Reflection
Reading this short, suffocating story, I fell into the illusion that I too was slowly crawling into the wallpaper. The narrator, suffering from postpartum depression, is shut away in an attic and utterly isolated in the name of "rest." Her madness, as she discovers a woman creeping behind the pattern of the wallpaper, is in truth a desperate revolt against the patriarchal oppression strangling her. Could the advice of others, offered for my own good, be the very thing tightening around my soul's throat? This book makes me listen to the silenced voice within me.
"There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will."Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
"저 벽지 속에는 나 말고는 아무도 모르는, 앞으로도 영원히 모를 것들이 숨어 있다."
🌱Apply It Today
If you have swallowed a feeling lately because of someone's expectations or a "this is for your own good," pour it out honestly into your journal. It's the first step toward finding your own voice.
