Darling: An Adaptation of The Yellow Wallpaper

Based on Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the following story depicts the vacation of a young woman and her fiancé to an isolated mountain cabin. Similar to the original text, the woman gains a fixation on a specifically colored item, this being the white snow outside. The intentions of this story were to depict how misogyny and female insanity have both evolved and remained stagnant throughout time. Even though the original text featured traditional concepts of misogyny while the following focuses on modern forms, the two show the same maddening fear of a woman in the presence of inequality. This creative piece was written in response for students to create a short narrative or poem inspired from a literary text they examined during the semester. Students could choose to create a piece from another character\u27s perspective, show what happened after the ending, or create something entirely new