We just read and discussed the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in English. One of my classmates says she remembers seeing the movie version of it. I tried to find it on the IMDb but can’t seem to dig it up; does anybody else know anything about it?
Even if you don’t know anything about the movie, what do you think of the storY?
While Gilman wrote a number of other short stories, TYW is undoubtably the most compelling. I can’t help but think there would have been a happy ending if that poor woman had just had something interesting to read.
I saw an adaptation years ago. Although I remember very few details except for a scene with eyeballs opening up in the wallpaper (very creepy), I found it to be a disturbing and effective study of depression and insanity. Check out this site
There was an episode of Masterpiece Theater that adapted “The Yellow Wallpaper” – I watched it in my high school English class after we read the story. It was fairly faithful to the story, although the setting was changed from America to England.
I did see a short film of this story last year in English class. The film was about 15 min. long. I don’t know haw it was compared to the book, we never read it.