Just an Ordinary Day Archive Realism and the Weird in “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The Story We Used to Tell” Author: Claudia McCarron | Aug032022 Categories: Critical Essays No comments When read together, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s tale reveals the realism peeking behind the frame of Shirley Jackson’s, and Jackson’s short story illuminates the otherworldly horror plaguing the narrator of Perkins Gilman’s.