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yellow wallpaper
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What is important about the title, The Yellow Wallpaper? | The pattern in the wallpaper is symbolic to being trapped. She fells trapped so she begins thinking there are other women in the wallpaper. |
Could the wallpaper have been any other color? How would a change in color have changed the story? | no- yellow is symbolic of her mood; story takes place in summer- sets mood and personality |
How does the color "yellow" affect you? Do you like (or dislike) it? | |
What are the psychological implications of the color "yellow"? | wrong shade of yellow can represent fear and anxiety |
How does the narrator's description of the wallpaper change over time? | more details and more senses awakened |
Could the story have taken place in a different place (or at a different time)? | no- this was a time when women were not seen as equal |
Why does the narrator live in a "colonial mansion"? What does the setting mean? Is it important? | they had wallpaper, its a place of wealth |
Why does Charlotte Perkins Gilman change the point of view? Is it an effective technique? | view of her husband, she is more determined to get free in the end |
Why does the narrator say: "What can on do?"? "How does that statement represent her state of mind? | she wants to know what someone can do to get better if they are depressed |
Why do you think Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote The Yellow Wallpaper? | for women suffering with depression after having a baby |
What are the conflicts in The Yellow Wallpaper? What types of conflict (physical, moral, intellectual, or emotional) did you notice? Is the conflict resolved? | physical- between narrator and wallpaper, moral- underlying issue of men and women being equal, intellectual- relationship between husband and wife, emotional- her depression |
Do you care about the characters? Do you like (or dislike) them? How real (or well-developed) do they seem to you? | sympathize with narrator. John seems arrogant, cold, and aloof; characters are stereotypes of the age. well-developed |
How does Charlotte Perkins Gilman reveal characters in The Yellow Wallpaper? | characters are introduced by the narrator |