"Is that the one where she walks into the ocean?"

I liked this story as a teenager and I revisited it via DailyLit over a lunch break one day. DO THIS.

I was stunned (again) how good it is. It's terrifying! And makes its feminist thesis perfectly clear while also being tragic and ominous. Coming from so far away as 1892, it's incredible to think what Gilman must have been like.

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