The Yellow Wallpaper By Sari Edelstein Summary

Yellow Journalism and “The Yellow Wallpaper” On the JSTOR website, the article Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Yellow Newspaper was published by the University of Nebraska Press. Sari Edelstein is the author of pages 72-92 to elaborate on Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s narrative “The Yellow Wallpaper” and how it relates to the term “yellow journalism” regarding tabloids and the press. Edelstein addresses how the culture changed once newspaper was published. The author also references the cultural impact of feminism by providing examples of the similarities between Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and the newspaper. Edelstein summarizes her understanding of Gilman’s narrative to be one that explains the anxiety Gilman felt and experiences when yellow journalism occurred and how it impacted her individually. This particular article stood out to me because it provided a different perspective on “The Yellow Wallpaper” than what I originally understood it to be. The context of the article is

Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine is quoted from 1886 on page 76 regarding the contaminations over the columns in reference to the newspaper’s appearance. This again, correlates to Gilman’s emphasis on the wallpaper in her narrative. On page 77 of Edelstein’s article the logos is defined when Wilcox is quoted after his study of the American newspaper. The descriptions that Wilcox used are almost identical to the descriptions that Gilman provided in her narrative about the yellow wallpaper. Both Wilcox and Gilman place emphasis on the visual disorientation of the paper just one is referencing wallpaper and the other, newspaper. Edelstein gains credibility by providing these specific references and allows the reader to gain a different perspective and deeper understanding of the meaning Gilman intended to convey by writing “The Yellow