A young woman, worn out after the birth of her baby, is taken by her husband, a doctor, to an old house rented for the summer. She is forbidden to write or work, and she spends her days in a room covered in hideous yellow wallpaper. She keeps a secret diary, and comes to believe that a figure is moving behind the pattern on the wall.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman had been through such a rest cure herself, and this short story creates an unease that grows with every page.
You can read it in one sitting in the language you are learning.
