Clearly, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman should be classified as horror because it is horrifically shocking, which fits the definition of horror. Primarily, the narrator ripped the wallpaper in the nursery. When the narrator first came into the nursery, she detested the room because she abhorred the wallpaper. She described the wallpaper as “repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight” (Gilman 3). The hatred for the wallpaper formed an idea in the narrator’s mind, that a woman is trapped behind the wallpaper. The narrator believed the idea inside her head and began to rip the wallpaper chunk by chunk. Even though there was no real woman behind the wallpaper, the
