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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Characters
About the Book
The Narrator
The Wallpaper
100
The year that Charlotte was born in.
1860
100
Believed to have a "slight hysterical tendency."
The Narrator
100
The type of story "The Yellow Wallpaper" is.
Fiction/ a short story
100
What she is forbidden to do until she is well again.
Work
100
The color of the wallpaper.
YELLOW
200
The town in which she was born.
Hartford, Connecticut
200
The Narrator's husband and physician.
John
200
The point of view it was written in.
First person
200
What her brother and John say is wrong with her.
"temporary nervous depression–a slight hysterical tendency"
200
What does the Narrator see in the wallpaper?
A woman
300
The year that she found herself "between going, insane, and staying, sane."
1887
300
John's sister
Jennie
300
Where the story takes place.
A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, or a summer house. (specifically the Narrator's room)
300
What she believes would "do good for her."
“Congenial work, with excitement and change”
300
What does John do at the end of the story?
Faints
400
The name of her daughter.
Katharine
400
Decides to keep a diary as "a relief to her mind."
The Narrator
400
The tense the story was told in.
Present tense
400
The reason writing exhausted her.
She had to be "sly" about it.
400
What does the Narrator do at the end of the story?
Removes the yellow wallpaper from the wall
500
The name of her autobiography, written in 1935.
"The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman"
500
Her presence and ability to take on a domestic role strengthen the Narrator's feelings of guilt over her own incapability to be a proper mother and wife.
Jennie
500
A modern condition, that we now know may have been cause of the Narrator's detachment.
Postpartum depression
500
What John thinks is the worst thing for the narrator to do.
Think about her condition
500
Who does the Narrator relate to the most in the story?
The woman in the yellow wallpaper