Show:
Gilman
The wallpaper
Characters
Setting
Key Facts
100
The narrator is forced to stay in the mansion's nursery for the duration of 3 months. She is removed from society and told not to worry or stress about a single thing; this includes not lifting a pen, pencil, or paintbrush.
What is the narrator's prescribed "Rest Treatment?"
100
During the day the shadows the narrator saw all around were usually dormant, while at night time the shadow would move all around the room and try and break free from their prison. The narrator thinks it is her duty to free it by removing the wallpaper during their last day living at the mansion.
What is the narrators shadow figures?
100
She is John's sister and also the caretaker of the house. She takes care of the narrator's baby.
Who is Jennie?
100
at the highest point if the mansion.
Where is the nursery located?
100
This form of depression affects some women shortly after childbirth. It is common for women to feel emotional for a short time after having a baby. If these feelings do not resolve and/or become more severe, it may be postpartum depression. ...
What is postpartum depression?
200
In the article "Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper" Charlotte Gilman said, "It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked."
Why was "The Yellow Wallpaper" Written?
200
The "Bulbous eyes" repeat hundreds of times all over the room in the design of the wallpaper. this gives our narrator a spooky feeling of being watched all the time.
What is surveillance?
200
Both of these character's are regarded as, "physicians of high standing."
What is the narrator's brother and John's occupation?
200
based on the quote, " a colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house and reach the height of romantic felicity", what is the theme of the story?
What is Gothic
200
The narrator, a young upper-middle-class woman who is suffering from what is most likely postpartum depression and whose illness gives her insight into her (and other women’s) situation in society and in marriage, even as the treatment she undergoes robs her of her sanity.
Who is the protagonist?
300
Female Gothic- distraught heroine, overly powerful male oppressor, irrational fears, forbidden mansion, confinement, and rebellion.
What literature style did the Yellow Wallpaper help make popular?
300
To let the shadow woman out of the wall and grants her long deserved freedom.
Why does the narrator strip the wallpaper off on the last day at the house?
300
The narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper reveals her name at the end of the story.
Who is Jane?
300
As the main character’s fictional journal, the story is told in strict first-person narration, focusing exclusively on her own thoughts, feelings, and perceptions. Everything that we learn or see in the story is filtered through the narrator’s shifting consciousness, and since the narrator goes insane over the course of the story, her perception of reality is often completely at odds with that of the other characters.
What is point of view?
300
The subordination of women in marriage; the importance of self-expression; the evils of the “Resting Cure”
What is the general theme of the story?
400
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a writer from this time period
What is the late 1800's/ early 1900's?
400
There is a sub-pattern in the wallpaper that looks like this. it gives the narrator a feeling of imprisonment.
What are prison bars?