Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper
As you read through the text for the first time, just absorb the story.
Keep Gilman’s background in mind as you progress, making connections where you can.
While you do not have to do anything formal initially, please take notice of the following ideas
that we will explore in more detail.
Keep Gilman’s background in mind as you progress, making connections where you can.
While you do not have to do anything formal initially, please take notice of the following ideas
that we will explore in more detail.
- The various settings - house, rooms, garden
- Boundaries created in those setting
- Symbolism of various objects or ideas in those settings
- Color diction and other imagery employed
- Characters - real or imaginary - the the roles they play
- The impact of first person narration
- The narrator’s journal as a tool
- Tension between the rational and irrational mind that manifests in this journal
- Significance of the word “creep” or the various forms of it
- The wallpaper - as the main symbol
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