The Yellow Wallpaper by https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np Questions for short story 5. en-us 2017-10-17 05:36:57 UTC 2025-12-24 05:08:24 UTC hello@padlet.com Summary https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197652879 A woman is suffering from what her physician husband calls "nervous depression", and ultimately deteriorates into full-blown psychosis by the end]]> 2017-10-17 06:16:13 UTC https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197652879 Summary https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197652912 The short story is about a mentally ill woman who has a husband called John. They live in a big old house somewhere in a small town in America. There is a yellow wallpaper in her bedroom that drives her mad due to its inconsistent pattern. Later on in the story, she discovers a woman trapped behind the wallpaper.]]> 2017-10-17 06:16:34 UTC https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197652912 Structure and narration https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197652974 The story is written in first-person, and the events take place in a chronological order.The narrative style is through a diary/journal the main character is writing. 

]]> 2017-10-17 06:17:13 UTC https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197652974 Language https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197653130 The language is rather old-fashioned, with a somewhat complex diction. The tone is light in the beginning, but as the main character starts to suspect something is up with the wallpaper, the tone becomes more stressed and eerie. The imagery is kind of vivid, the wallpaper is depicted in a very elaborate way, and the world outside is pictured as green. ]]> 2017-10-17 06:18:20 UTC https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197653130 Crazy woman and weird man https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197653146 The main characters include the woman keeping the diary, her physician husband, John, that treats her nervous depression, and Jeannie, Johns sister and the womans caretaker. They're spending the summer at an ancestral house.]]> 2017-10-17 06:18:26 UTC https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197653146 Summary, plot https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197653282 The story is about a mentally ill woman who lives in a house with her physician/husband. She is obviously not well, and get's obsessed with a yellow wallpaper in her room. She tries to hide her mania by keeping it a secret, which paradoxically makes her seem even more troubled. The story ends with her tearing down the wallpaper, something that causes John to faint.]]> 2017-10-17 06:19:52 UTC https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197653282 Suspicious love https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197653327 Strained from the woman POV; he tells her she needs to rest and not do too much while she herself feels as if she would benefit more from "working" ("I sometimes fancy in my condition, If I had less oppression and more society and stimulus..."). At the end with so much leisure time and nothing to do with it she goes mad and blames him partly for it.]]> 2017-10-17 06:20:22 UTC https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197653327 Characters https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197653376 Narrator, John, Jennie, and the women behind the wallpaper who are a symbol for the narrator.]]> 2017-10-17 06:20:55 UTC https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197653376 Structure/narration https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197653476 The story is written like a diary or a journal. She writes about her feelings and thoughts, as well as her everyday life. The story is chronological and is written from a first person perspective.]]> 2017-10-17 06:21:49 UTC https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197653476 Language https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197653635 The language is old fashioned, almost Brittish-like, except for the word choices which proves that the story actually is American. The story is descriptive, but at the same time it jumps past different events.]]> 2017-10-17 06:22:59 UTC https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197653635 https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197653891 Isolation doesn't do good, and mental illnesses are real, not a fiction of your imagination, as John makes the main character's mental state out to be. 
Psychological thriller, horror]]> 2017-10-17 06:24:48 UTC https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197653891 Location https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197653935 It feels like the story takes place in the countryside somewhere in America since they live in a big house far away from a neighborhood. The room where the protagonist stays seems to be a nursery for children.]]> 2017-10-17 06:25:07 UTC https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197653935 A woman, husband and brother thinks she has a nervous depression, she does not believe she is mentally ill. https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197653983 2017-10-17 06:25:25 UTC https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197653983 John, narrator, Jennie, wall-woman (not really a character? or is she?), Mary, the baby https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197654005 2017-10-17 06:25:34 UTC https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197654005 Curious --> Terrified ---> home https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197654135 She goes from being curious and disturbed by it, to terrified as she starts seeing shapes and a woman moving under, to finally believing that she originated from it herself.]]> 2017-10-17 06:26:27 UTC https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197654135 1st person person perspective (written in a journal, includes feelings, thoughts, events), told chronological order https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197654166 2017-10-17 06:26:37 UTC https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197654166 https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197654177 In her room during a longer period maybe three months, writing in her diary which she isn't allowed to doe. Almost never leaves the mansion. 
John - husband
Brother
John's sister - Jenny, also looks at the wallpaper
The women behind the wallpaper, and women who crawl in the garden

]]> 2017-10-17 06:26:40 UTC https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197654177 Relationship https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197654208 John feels slightly manipulative and controlling, but still loving and caring. In the beginning she does not fully agree with him on what she should do to get better, and in the end she feels scared of him due to multiple reasons.]]> 2017-10-17 06:26:53 UTC https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197654208 9 https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197654343 She goes full on Natalie Portman in Black Swan ]]> 2017-10-17 06:27:41 UTC https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197654343 Wrong treatment of depression https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197654495 Gilman herself suffered depression and was told to go home and engage in as little brain stimuli as possible, and she did, for three months until she felt herself going madder and madder by the second. Gilman wrote the story as a way to prevent other women from going crazy due to following a doctors non-effective orders.]]> 2017-10-17 06:28:35 UTC https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197654495 Feelings https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197654695 In the beginning, she does not like the wallpaper at all, but later on she stars to get fascinated by it. The wallpaper, and the women behind it, is also a symbol of her life.]]> 2017-10-17 06:29:25 UTC https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197654695 At night https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197654962 The wallpaper comes to life at night. The women represent other women feeling trapped in their marriage, just like the protagonist.]]> 2017-10-17 06:31:10 UTC https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197654962 End https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197655201 In the end the narrator finally understands that the woman behind the wallpaper has been herself, all along.]]> 2017-10-17 06:32:31 UTC https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197655201 https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197655245 the author is trying to say that thinking of women’s natural state as fundamentally passive and lacking and blaming ”nervous depression” on women's creative or intellectual outlets is fundamentally wrong and harmful , and will never happen if the mentally ill person is a man. In this way, the message is also one of feminism. ]]> 2017-10-17 06:32:43 UTC https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197655245 Themes https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197655465 The author wants to bring forward the importance of awareness towards mental illness.]]> 2017-10-17 06:33:58 UTC https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197655465 The story is written in first-person https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197655518 The story is written in first-person in a chronological manner, but the tense shifts between present tense and imperfect]]> 2017-10-17 06:34:17 UTC https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197655518 https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197656578 It's a very isolated house and a very isolated room, and this mirrors and reinforces the narrators emotions.]]> 2017-10-17 06:39:42 UTC https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197656578 Murder! https://padlet.com/Sadagen2020/a0g3aon3r1np/wish/197657290 We thought of it as her murdering him, since she has to creep over him several times, not just once before he wakes up

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