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Goody Cloyse and Deacon Gookin were in this story

YGB

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What's ironic about Jane's stay in "The Yellow Wallpaper"

She is taken to a place to rest that is beautiful and has all the things she needs, but she gets lost in herself and gets worse

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Louisiana.  Plantation.  Bayou

Desiree's Baby

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My faith is gone

YGB:  YGB

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yellow

The yellow wallpaper

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Louise's sister

Josephine

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What's ironic about Armand's mother's letter

He finds it after his wife and baby are gone and it tells him and us that it was he who made the baby black and not Desiree
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Upstairs.  All alone.  Comfy chair

The Story of an Hour

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It's a lie; it is not true.  I am white!

Desiree:  Desiree's Baby

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Black and Pink

YGB

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Brently Mallard's best friend

Richards

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What's ironic about Armand and LaBlanche's child?

This baby is Armand's and is mixed race and is welcome in Armand's home while the child he had in marriage is not.

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Upstairs.  All alone.  Nailed-down bed.

Yellow Wallpaper

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“Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long.”

it's about Louise:  Story of an Hour

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Black and white

Desiree's Baby

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Dr. John's sister

Jenny

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Explain the verbal irony here:  Who says it, as well?

"What if the devil himself should be at my very elbow!"

YBG says this when he's walking in the woods.  He doesn't mean the devil is with him, but yet a man appears and it ends up being the devil.

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Comfy chairs.   Glasses of Whiskey.  Lots of visitors

Lamb to the Slaughter

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  • "It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight" 
Jane writes this:  Yellow Wallpaper
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Green leaves

The Story of an Hour

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The enslaved woman looking out the window

Zandrine

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Desiree's home is named L'Abri. What is ironic about this name

L'abri means shelter and her home is not sheltering because she gets kicked out for being the mother of a mixed race baby.

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Green grass.  Covered pathways.   Extra buildings

Yellow Wallpaper

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"Naturally you can have the baby when it comes. You'll have some money. Sorry, I can't give you a lot".

Patrick Maloney:  Lamb to the Slaughter

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The color of sulphur

The Yellow Wallpaper

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