夏洛蒂·珀金斯·吉尔曼被誉为美国第一代女性主义作家之一,是著名的女权运动先驱。《黄色墙纸》是吉尔曼创作中的优秀代表,是一部半自传体的小说。小说采用第一人称来叙述一位知识女性在父权社会制度下走向精神崩溃的心路历程,展现了当时觉醒女性的悲剧命运。书中的很多情节来自于作者自己的生活, Charlotte Perkins · Gilman, known as one of the first generation of feminist writers in the United States, is a famous forerunner of the feminist movement. “Yellow Wallpaper” is the outstanding representative of Gilman’s creation, is a semi-autobiographical novel. The novel employs the first person to describe the mentality of a knowledgeable woman going to a mental breakdown under the patriarchal social system and shows the tragic fate of women who were awakened at that time. Many of the plots in the book come from the author’s own life,