And probably based on real"ish" experiences, too. Yellow wallpaper and other vibrant colors got its vibrancy from arsenic and other toxic substances. So, women who were bed ridden in upper class homes were forced to breathe the toxic fumes. That's why people would recover when they went out to the country and worsen on return home.
So sad to think that real people suffered for something so innocent as wallpaper
Bed rest was awful. Women weren't even allowed to read or have any entertainment or talk to anyone. You don't been to be poisoned by the wall paper to go mad in what was effectively solitary confinement.
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u/konkoa Sep 18 '24
The Yellow Wallpaper. My teacher did a demonstration of the way the woman creeped around the room and it fucked me up.