LIT 127: Introduction to Fiction
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The Yellow Wallpaper

 
  Directions:  In the appropriate conference on our class Discussion Board, discuss one or all of the following.

1.  In your own words, describe exactly what is happening in the story.  What is wrong with the narrator?  What is the initial cause?  What causes her condition to worsen?
2.  What is the significance of the narrator being housed in a former nursery?
3.  What is the symbolism of the yellow wallpaper itself?
4.  Read "Undergoing the Cure for Nervous Prostration" and "Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper" (pp 1496-1499).  How does this knowledge of Gilman's own life inform the story?

 

 

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