Setting
The year the Yellow Wallpaper took place.
What is 1899?
Jane is the narrator and the protagonist in the story.
What is an Autodiegetic narrator?
"There is a delicious garden"
What is a symbol?
The yellow wallpaper is presented in chronological order.
What is fabula?
Invented by a MAN who was a doctor, also diagnosed to Jane by her Husband who was also a doctor. A diagnosis that was only given to women.
What is the "rest cure?"
The colonial mansion was......
What type of house did they stay in over the summer?
Jane seems to have a distinct personality that makes her opinions know.
What is an overt narrator?
"So I take pains to control myself"
What is a metaphor?
I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store. I remember what a kind wink the knobs of our big, old bureau used to have, and there was one chair that always seemed like a strong friend"
What is a quote where Jane is using Analepsis?
John said, " What is it, little girl?"
What is John subconsucly trying to control Jane?
" At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be. "
How was the wallpaper perceived during the night?
John diagnosis the "rest cure" on Jane creating an obstacle making him the....
Who is the antagonist?
"There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare a you upside down".
What is a simile?
Jane's world in which she lives that summer is unpleasant.
What is a dystopia?
A quote in the book where Jane is talking about how the wallpaper makes her feel uneasy "I wish John would take me away from here!"
What is Jane understanding that she would be feeling better if she wasn't resting in that house all summer?
The smell, the pattern and the bars on the window all contributed to.....
What effected Janes emotional atmosphere?
"He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction."
What is direct characterization?
"I didn't realize for a long time what the thing was that showed behind, that dim sub-pattern, but now I am quite sure it is a women"
and
"I remember what a kindly wink the knobs of our big, old bureau used to have"
What is personification?
John diagnose Jane with "rest cure"
What significant event happened in the beginning of the story for Jane to be under such strict rules?
Two different quotes from Janes thoughts:
"Personally, I disagree with their ideas."
"....he takes all care from me, and so I feel basely ungrateful not to value it more"
What is Jane feeling obligated to go along with her diagnoses?
" I've got out at last," said I, "in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you cant put me back!"
What is Jane having an out of body experience?
" I get unreasonably angry with John sometimes i'm sure i never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition."
What is indirect characterization?
"But I tried it last night. It was moonlight."
What is metonymy?
Jane believes she is the women in the wallpaper, John faints and Jane keeps creeping
What significant event happens at the end of "The Yellow Wallpaper."
Daily Double Bouns Question!!!!
Every married couple in the early 1900s where the women are trying to break free of the control men believe they have over them
What do Jane and John represent?