Show:
"Yellow Wallpaper"
"Trifles"
"Awakening"
"A White Heron"
Themes from the worksheet
100
What is the Narrator's huspand's job?
A doctor
100
Does Mrs. Wright ever appear on stage?
No
100
What is the name of Edna's lover in the play?
Robert
100
Who does Sylvia live with?
Her grandmother
100
“as Treichler has shown, "a feminist reading emphasizes the social and economic conditions which drive the narrator- and potentially all women-to madness.” Ford Which story is the best example of a women going Mad
Yellow Wallpaper
200
What is the narrator suffering from?
nervous depression
200
Who was killed?
John Wright
200
Where are the Pontellier family from?
New Orleans, Lousiana
200
She describes her journey home everyday with what animal?
Cow
200
“But is this freedom of expression, and if so, at what cost does she achieve it?” Ford, How did many of the Women in the stories achieve freedom?
Death
300
Why does the narrator write her journal
"relieve her mind"
300
What was Mrs. Wright not allowed to do, that could have led to her killing of her husband
sing
300
Why does Robert flee?
He knows that he can not be with Edna
300
Why does the man want the White Herons?
To kill them for taxadermy
300
What type of women suffered from male defined role during this time period?
Middle class
400
What does the Wallpaper symbolize
bars of a cage, women who were strangled as they tried to escape clutch of men
400
Finish the quote by the Sherrif, "“Nothing here but _____________ things.”
Kitchen
400
What is Edna's Purpose of running back into the ocean the last time?
She wants to escape and have freedom
400
What does Sylvia have when she sees the Herons in the tree
an epiphany
400
"She perceived that her will had blazed up, stubborn and resistant. She could not at that moment have done other than denied and resisted. She wondered if her husband had ever spoken to her like that before, and if she had submitted to his command. Of course she had; she remembered that she had. But she could not realize why or how she should have yielded, feeling as she then did" what theme from the worksheet does this quote fall under
Power Struggle
500
"don’t like to look out of the windows even—there are so many of those creeping ________, and they creep so fast. I wonder if they all come out of that wall-paper as I did?" Fill in the blank
women
500
What does the Canary's song symbolize?
the wife’s desire for freedom and happiness
500
"The years that are gone seem like dreams—if one might go on sleeping and dreaming—but to wake up and find—oh! well! Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one’s life.” Who is Edna talking to with this quote?
Doctor Mandelet
500
What does Sylvia or the narrator want for her selflisness and not giving up the birds?
The secret of nature
500
Name the 6 themes covered on the worksheet
Male Defined Role Breaking Free Male vs. Female Role women's lack of autonomy Power Struggle Creative Outlet