Audiobook Sample - \"The Yellow Wallpaper\" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Young Adult (18-35)Accents
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a selection from the yellow wallpaper by charlotte Perkins Gilman narrated by Megan Renshaw. I don't know why I should write this. I don't want to. I don't feel able and I know john would think it absurd, but I must say what I feel and think in some way it is such a relief. But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief half the time. Now. I am awfully lazy and lie down ever so much, john says I mustn't lose my strength and has me take cod liver oil and lots of tonics and things to say nothing of a land, wine and rare meat. Dear john! He loves me very dearly, and hates to have me sick. I tried to have a real earnest, reasonable talk with him the other day and tell him how I wish he would let me go and make a visit to cousin Henry and Julia. But he said I wasn't able to go nor able to stand it after I got there and I did not make out a very good case for myself, for I was crying before I had finished. It is getting to be a great effort for me to think straight just this nervous weakness, I suppose. And dear john gathered me up in his arms and just carried me upstairs and laid me on the bed and sat by me and read to me till it tired my head, he said, I was his darling and his comfort and all he had and that I must take care of myself for his sake and keep well! He says no one but myself can help me out of it. That I must use my will and self control, and not let any silly fancies run away with me. There's one comfort. The baby is well and happy, and does not have to occupy this nursery with the horrid wallpaper. If we had not used it, that blessed child would have! What a fortunate escape! Why! I wouldn't have a child of mine, an impressionable little thing! Live in such a room for worlds! I never thought of it before, but it is lucky that john kept me here. After all. I can stand it so much easier than a baby, you see. Of course I never mentioned it to them anymore. I am too wise, but I keep watch of it all the same. There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows but me or ever will behind that outside pattern. The dim shapes get clearer every day, and it is always the same shape, only very numerous. And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern. I don't like it a bit. I wonder. I begin to think. I wish john would take me away from here.