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Author–search for your author’s biography on Gale or another credible website. Do NOT Google your author. Go to a database on URdigital Library. You can create a hyperlink with the information, including a picture of the author.

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Author–search for your author’s biography on Gale or another credible website. Do NOT Google your author. Go to a database on URdigital Library. You can create a hyperlink with the information, including a picture of the author.

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Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman Gale Biography

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Explain the title of your story. How does it relate to the story itself? 

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Explain the title of your story. How does it relate to the story itself? 

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The title of the story, The Yellow Wallpaper, heavily relates to the story. This is because the yellow wallpaper is the main reason as to why the protagonist went "crazy" after giving birth. She is stuck in what was suppose to be the nursery, surrounded by a wild looking yellow wallpaper. The more she looked at the wallpaper, the more she began to go crazy. She is locked in that room for a while after giving birth and began thinking the wallpaper was changing. At first she hated this wallpaper, but grew to like it. She wanted to stay in this room for even longer the more she was locked in there.

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Put specific examples in each of the following elements of the plot graph.

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Put specific examples in each of the following elements of the plot graph.

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Exposition: The characters include the protagonist (the lady who is slowly going crazy), John (the protagonist's husband), and Jennie (John's sister). This story takes place around the 1890s, somewhere in New England. The protagonist lives in a large, barren house. She locked up in a prison-like room that was suppose to be the nursery. The story takes place after the protagonist gives birth to her child. She is living with the postpartum effects after giving birth.

Conflict (inciting incident): The protagonist got stuck in the nursery by her husband John, after getting birth to her child. She began going crazy and had postpartum depression.

Rising Action: The protagonist starts noticing the yellow wallpaper in her room and how hideous it is, asking John to get rid of it. He doesn't, and she continues to be stuck with the wallpaper, which seems to drive her further into insanity.

Climax: The protagonist starts to believe that the woman trapped inside the yellow wallpaper is herself.

Falling Action: She eventually becomes completely insane, seeing the woman/the projection of herself everywhere, and not wanting to leave the room she is stuck in despite it basically being her prison.

Resolution: Our protagonist rips the yellow wallpaper off the wall to liberate the woman in the pattern, thereby freeing herself from the room also (her husband lets her out of the room)

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1. Why did she go so crazy when stuck in that room? Was it really all because of wallpaper?

2. Does she really feel grateful to John, or does she really feel resentment since he doesn't understand her or her circumstance?

3. How does the narrator's opinion of the room change throughout the story?

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Using your tonal sheet, explain/define/support the tone of the story (with direct and indirect quotes) 

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Using your tonal sheet, explain/define/support the tone of the story (with direct and indirect quotes) 

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The Yellow Wallpaper is somber, solemn, and reflective. One quote which captures the depth and complexity of these tonal words is, "You think you have mastered it [the wallpaper], but just as you get well underway in following, it turns a back-somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you. It is like a bad dream. " This quote shows how the narrator reflects deeply on the wallpaper since it is what surrounds her. Her description of her mental state furthers the solemn tone. She describes her suffering at the hands of the wallpaper and how she wishes to return home to her child.

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Who are the main characters? Identify their purpose and discuss their development. Round? Flat? Dynamic? Static?

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Who are the main characters? Identify their purpose and discuss their development. Round? Flat? Dynamic? Static?

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The characters are the narrator, John, and Jennie.

The narrator remains unnamed throughout the story. She suffers from postpartum depression and is treated by being left alone for long periods of time. The character is dynamic because as the story progresses she becomes "crazy" after staring at the yellow wallpaper in the nursery.

John- John is the narrator's husband who is a physician and believes that his wife's illness isn't serious. He believes that the best thing for her is to spend time away from the baby and keeps the narrator locked in her room. John doesn't change much throughout the story. He's a static character because he continues to hold his stance on how his wife's illness should be treated.

Jennie- Jennie is John's sister who takes care of the narrator. Jennie like John is a static character in the story, she doesn't change in the story.

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What is/are the symbol(s) in your story? How does that symbol develop throughout the story? (5 points)

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What is/are the symbol(s) in your story? How does that symbol develop throughout the story? (5 points)

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The woman in the wallpaper, the uninterpretable pattern, the color yellow.

Typically yellow is a calming or soothing color, but in the brief story, the yellow is described as "repellent, almost revolting: a smoldering unclean yellow... dull yet lurid...a sickly sulpher tint." (Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 590) The yellow's hideous tinge symbolizes the protagonist's restless and isolated feelings.

The wallpaper is also described as "irritating enough to provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide.." (Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 590) This chaotic and thought-provoking pattern reflects the narrator's unstable mental state in her isolated trap. The dark diction, of suicide, lame and irritating create a dark mood for the rest of the story.

As the story continues, and our protagonist keeps staring at the wallpaper, the pattern morphs into a woman: stuck in the wallpaper just like the real woman feels in the institution.

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Painting by Johan Christian Dahl (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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Find a piece of art (real art, like from a museum)  that reflects either the theme, a character, or setting.

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Find a piece of art (real art, like from a museum)  that reflects either the theme, a character, or setting.

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The story mainly takes place in the protagonist's room, in which she is isolated but able to pass time by looking out the window, watching other people outside or the weather changes. The painting reflects the setting, it being from the perspective of someone inside looking out.

"When the sun shoots in through the east window--I always watch for that first long straight ray--it changes so quickly than I never can quite believe it.

That is why I watch it always." (Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 594)