By Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
I think everyone should read it, if they get the chance. It's only fifteen pages long and it has actually deeply affected me. And very little deeply affects me.
It's about a woman with post natal depression who gets confined to a room in the name of 'rest cure'. Her husband is a doctor who is verging on abusive in the way he refuses to take anything she says seriously and patronizes her. She is not allowed to see her baby or her family because she is 'hysterical'. The sad part is that it's semi-autobiographical.
It opens up a whole can of worms. Not only does the story itself leave you questioning everything you've just read (there are a few different interpretations of the plot and the characters) but it leaves you questioning society on a whole. I love it.
You should look it up. I had to read it for school, but it's now one of my personal favourites, and it's written beautifully.
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