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The Journal
A young wife, forbidden to work or write during a summer 'rest cure' prescribed by her physician husband, is confined to an upstairs room with a hideous yellow wallpaper she cannot stop studying — told entirely through the secret journal she isn't supposed to be keeping.
The rest cure and the medical authority of husband-physicians over 'nervous' wivesA secret journal as the only outlet left to the narratorThe wallpaper's shifting, unreadable patternA figure the narrator perceives moving behind the paperIsolation in the name of care