The Yellow Wallpaper at eNotes

The woman behind the wallpaper represents the narrator's repressed self that she envisions as a prisoner in the domestic sphere of her life. The more that the narrator looks at this wallpaper, the more a woman takes shape: And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern. I don't like it a bit. I wonder--I begin to think--I wish John would take me away from here! This woman is the manifestation of the narrator's...

What are some examples of asyndeton in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper"?

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

How does the speaker's husband feel about her writing?

Compare and contrast the way the female characters are presented in Kate Chopin's "A Pair of Silk Stockings" and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper."

Looking at the minor characters in "The Yellow Wallpaper," analyze the view of women during this time period. Use the text to support your ideas, supplying specific examples.

What is a detailed description of the wallpaper in "The Yellow Wallpaper"?

In "The Yellow Wallpaper," is the narrator afraid of her husband, John?

Are appropriated texts just as valuable as the texts upon which they were based such as Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, based on "The Yellow Wallpaper"?

If “Setting” is the general locale, historical time, and social circumstances in which the action of a fictional or dramatic work occurs, in what country would "The Yellow Wallpaper" be set?

How do we know the narrator's name is Jane in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"?

Do you think that the narrator is mentally ill to begin with, or has something else caused her to become mentally ill in "The Yellow Wallpaper"?

What are the ways in which the authors create and develop the narrators in "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "The Cask of Amontillado"?

What are the dramatic conventions of "The Yellow Wallpaper"?

What's an example of direct characterization and indirect characterization in the yellow wallpaper?

I am writing a response paper. This is the last three sentences in my introduction paragraph. Charlotte Perkins Gilman has created a character that believes she is trapped within the yellow wall-paper. The yellow wall-paper that the narrator begins to detest is a significant symbol in the story of the narrator’s declining mental state. Her mental instability is shown in the way she describes the yellow wall-paper and how this description...