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The short paragraphs in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story, "The Yellow...

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The short paragraphs in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," are important to understand the narrator's state of mind. When paragraphs are shortened and sentences repeat themselves, this reveals the narrators madness or mania escalating. She can't express extended thoughts and what she says is hardly coherent. Gilman uses language to reflect what is occurring in the narrator's mind. Though the narrator is writing or...

Could John represent the wallpaper in "The Yellow Wallpaper?"

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Could John represent the wallpaper in "The Yellow Wallpaper?"

Although John thinks that he is helping his wife, Jane, by keeping her...

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Although John thinks that he is helping his wife, Jane, by keeping her isolated and inactive, this is actually an imprisonment and leads to Jane's breakdown. The yellow wallpaper lines the wall of her room. They are the metaphorical prison bars of her incarceration. So, John is comparable to the wallpaper in the sense that he basically imprisons her and the wallpaper coats the actual walls of her prison. John is condescending to Jane, telling...

What are the similarities and differences between "The Yellow Wallpaper"...

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What are the similarities and differences between "The Yellow Wallpaper" and The Scarlet Letter?

These are two very disparate pieces of literature. Aside from the former...

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These are two very disparate pieces of literature. Aside from the former being a short story and the latter a novel, both take place within two very different times: The Scarlet Letter is a novel that deals with Puritan life in Massachusetts in the 1600s, while "The Yellow Wallpaper" takes place in a colonial mansion (perhaps in Providence, Rhode Island) in the late 19th-century. In terms of setting, both are New England tales. Gilman wrote...

Which is more important to the story "The Yellow Wallpaper"—the...

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Which is more important to the story "The Yellow Wallpaper"—the character development or the setting?

I think you are on the right track and I agree with your thinking so...

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I think you are on the right track and I agree with your thinking so far. I would go on to argue that the setting of the story is the driving force of the protagonist's character change and descent into madness. First the story has many conventions that mirror the Gothic literature popular in the 1800s, not in the least the setting. The narrator describes the house as an "ancestral hall" and a "hereditary estate" in the very first paragraph...

Critic Catherine Golden describes what happens to the narrator in "The...

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Critic Catherine Golden describes what happens to the narrator in "The Yellow Wallpaper" as a double palimpsest. What does she mean?

Charlotte Perkins Gillman's story "The Yellow Wallpaper" is an overlay...

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Charlotte Perkins Gillman's story "The Yellow Wallpaper" is an overlay of the story of so many repressed women during the Victorian era as it presents the medical and professional dominance of women as well as hegemonic masculinity. Also, in support of Golden's claim that the story is a double palimpsest, which is a manuscript that has been once written, effaced and written over anew; the story can be read as a chronicle of more than one...

What is the central theme or the main theme of "The Yellow Wallpaper?"

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What is the central theme or the main theme of "The Yellow Wallpaper?"

The primary theme of "The Yellow Wallpaper" is that women who are...

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The primary theme of "The Yellow Wallpaper" is that women who are suffering from post-partum depression, or any kind of depression, should be respected and allowed to make decisions regarding their own lifestyle and health. The rapid decline that Jane experiences under her husband's care and watchfulness and "the rest cure" could have been prevented if John had listened to Jane's desires. Jane wants to write, which would have certainly been a...

Identify the narrative style of "The Yellow Wallpaper." What is the...

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Identify the narrative style of "The Yellow Wallpaper." What is the effect of this style of narrative in developing the main character? How does it influence how the reader understands the main character?

Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper" in a narrative...

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper" in a narrative style known as epistolary fiction. This type of fiction unfolds via the writings of one or more characters. In this case, the main character, Jane, journals her thoughts while she is undergoing a "rest cure" for depression. Epistolary fiction creates a subjective point of view. In this story, we only know what Jane tells us, and because of her mental state, she is a highly...

As the dim shape in the wallpaper becomes clearer, what does the...

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As the dim shape in the wallpaper becomes clearer, what does the narrator realize it is?

Day after day, the narrator watches the wallpaper, and she realizes that...

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Day after day, the narrator watches the wallpaper, and she realizes that there is a figure, "like a woman, stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern." At first, she hates the wallpaper and its horrible color, pattern, and smell. She associates it with illness and decay and death. As she becomes more and more unhappy in her attic prison, a place with bars on the windows, a bed nailed to the floor, and a gate at the top of the...

What are the similarities and differences between "The Yellow Wallpaper"...

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What are the similarities and differences between "The Yellow Wallpaper" and The Scarlet Letter?

Which is more important to the story "The Yellow Wallpaper"—the...

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Which is more important to the story "The Yellow Wallpaper"—the character development or the setting?

Critic Catherine Golden describes what happens to the narrator in "The...

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Critic Catherine Golden describes what happens to the narrator in "The Yellow Wallpaper" as a double palimpsest. What does she mean?

What is the central theme or the main theme of "The Yellow Wallpaper?"

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What is the central theme or the main theme of "The Yellow Wallpaper?"

Identify the narrative style of "The Yellow Wallpaper." What is the...

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Identify the narrative style of "The Yellow Wallpaper." What is the effect of this style of narrative in developing the main character? How does it influence how the reader understands the main character?
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