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Theme/Mood
Characters
Gothic Elements
The Narrator
The Wallpaper
100

The theme involved was shown through the treatment of this character throughout the text.

Who is the narrator?

100
Believed to have a "slight hysterical tendency."
The Narrator
100

The ancestral estate with a top-floor "nursery" with the bed nailed to the floor and rings inserted into the walls describes this gothic element.

What is the setting?

100
What she is forbidden to do until she is well again.
Work
100
The color of the wallpaper.
YELLOW
200

The treatment of neurasthenia caused her delirium.

What is rest?

200
The Narrator's husband and physician.
John
200

The undulating wallpaper with bulbous eyeballs in the moonlight helps to describe this gothic element. 

What is the mood?

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

Women are expected to cook, clean, care for children quietly, and host parties.

What are the expectations of women?

300
John's sister
Jennie
300

The narrator's mental stability and deteriorating state describe this gothic element. 

What is the theme?

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

Women who are creative, imaginative, or emotional are this.

What is hysterical?

400
Decides to keep a diary as "a relief to her mind."
The Narrator
400

Words such as creeping, bulbous, undulating, smoldering, unclean, and twilight describe this gothic element.

What is mood or tone?

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 lack of autonomy, self-expression, or voice in her treatment/marriage/care of her infant led to this.

What is insanity?

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 the cause of the Narrator's detachment describes this gothic element.

What are postpartum depression and heightened emotions?

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