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Who sees? Who is blind? Why? Compare one character’s insight to another character’s lack of understanding, either in the same text or through a comparative reading. What thematic purpose is served by the author presenting some characters as either “blind” tocertain knowledge, or as gaining some sort of insight?

Analyze the tone in "The Yellow Wallpaper."

What is a psychoanalysis of the characters in "The Yellow Wallpaper"?

Please evaluate this thesis statement for a literary analysis essay of "The Yellow Wallpaper": "The setting of this story forms the backdrop for the symbolism, where the main character describes the mental plight of being confined while battling depression."

In "The Yellow Wallpaper," what is the relationship between the narrator and her husband?

Regarding the cult of domesticity and the challenges facing women in the late nineteenth century, what examples from this work would be useful for an essay?

Explain how the wallpaper confuses and disgusts the narrator.

How does "The Yellow Wallpaper" reveal how women were approached during the nineteenth century?

Compare and contrast the two different views of women's lives in Herland and "The Yellow Wallpaper."

What might a Freudian view of "The Yellow Wallpaper" look like?

How does her description of the wallpaper change? How does the changing description of the wallpaper reflect the narrator's changing character?

Discuss what you think the author is presenting in this story as what women need to be emotionally healthy. Show which passages make you think that.

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

In "The Yellow Wallpaper," much of the language used to describe the narrators experience has both a denotative and connotative function. how do the meanings of such words and phrases as "yellow,""creeping,""immovable bed," and, "outside pattern" change as they appear in different parts of the story?

Provide an argument for how "The Yellow Wallpaper" should be interpreted. Include quotes.

What causes the illness in "The Yellow Wallpaper"?

How does the syntax of the sentences both mirror the pattern on the wallpaper and suggest the narrators agitation?

"I lie here on this great immovable bed-it is nailed down, I believe-and follow the pattern about by the hour. it is as good as gymnastics, I assure you. I know a little of the principle of the design, and I know this thing was not arranged on any laws of radiation, or alteration, or repetition, or symmetry, or anything else I heard of. it is repeated, of course, by the breadths, but not otherwise. looked at in one way each breadth stands alone, the bloated curves and flourishes-a kind of "debased Romanesque" with delirium tremens-go waddling up and down in isolated columns of fatuity. but, on the other hand, they connect diagonally, and the sprawling outlines run off in great slanting waves of optic horror, like a lot of wallowing sea-weeds in full chase." both mirror the pattern on the wallpaper and suggest the narrators agitation?