Spaces in Literature is a recurring feature exploring how places in books shape thought, identity, and power — not just as settings, but as forces that guide the story itself. This series looks at how literary spaces become emotional, political, and symbolic structures — and how they quietly shape the lives of the characters who inhabit them. When does a room becomes a psychological space? Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper is often read as a story about madness and oppression.Yet the setting itself—the room, its color, its pattern, and its furnishings—plays a central role in the narrator’s psychological decline.…
