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Thursday, May 27, 2010

The Yellow Wallpaper - Due Friday, May 28th

Name: ____________________________________
“The Yellow Wallpaper”

1. Where does the story take place?
2. Who is narrating the story?
3. What does the narrator’s husband do?
4. About what do the narrator and her husband disagree?
5. When does John work?
6. Why has the narrator not been writing?
7. How does the narrator feel about her duty to John?
8. What does the narrator now see in the wallpaper?
9. How does she feel about what she sees?
10. What childhood “entertainment” does the narrator recall?
11. How does John say the narrator can get well?
12. Why doesn’t the narrator mention what she sees in the wallpaper?
13. How has the wallpaper changed?
14. What does the narrator say happens when the light changes? Why does she watch it?
15. What does she see behind the wallpaper?
16. Why does the narrator think the woman remains still?
17. Why does the narrator think the front pattern moves?
18. Whom does the narrator see behind the front pattern?
19. What is the woman behind the pattern trying to do?
20. How does John get in the room?
21. What is the narrator doing?
22. What is John’s reaction?
23. At the time it was published, most critics read “The Yellow Wallpaper” as a horror tale about madness or, after Gilman’s explanation appeared in 1913, as an expose of women’s medical treatment. Only a few saw what feminists in the 1970s would interpret as Gilman’s political assumptions. They viewed the story as a harsh criticism of marriage and the oppression of women. Explain which of these interpretations you favor using specific examples from the text to support your opinion.

Read the story here: http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/yellowwallpaper.pdf

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