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Ron Reads Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," a haunting short story that chronicles a woman's descent into madness after being prescribed a rest cure for her "nervous condition."

• A woman and her physician husband rent a colonial mansion for the summer
• Her husband John dismisses her concerns and prescribes complete rest as treatment
• She becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper in her bedroom, describing its horrible pattern and color
• Writing in secret despite her husband's prohibition as it would "excite her imagination"
• The pattern in the wallpaper begins to move and reveal a woman trapped behind it
• She becomes convinced multiple women are trapped in the pattern, trying to escape
• Her mental state deteriorates as she begins to identify with the woman in the wallpaper
• She locks herself in the room to tear down the wallpaper and "free" the trapped woman
• The story ends with her complete mental breakdown as she creeps around the room

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