She, on the other hand, doubts the necessity of such a move and wonders if the mysterious house is haunted. ... She even suggests that his indifference to her opinions on the house and her illness keeps her from getting well faster. ... Against her wishes, John decides that he and his wife will sleep in the attic room of the house, which at one point may have been a nursery. ... There is even a gate at the top of the stairs. ... The story's climactic scene occurs as their stay in the rented house is coming to a close. ...

• Word Count: 728
• Approx Pages: 3

Our house consisted of four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a living room, a kitchen, a garage, a big back yard, and a front patio. ... My dad also told me that I jumped off the stairs yelling out "superman," which caused me to crack the left side of my skull, and luckily it did not do any serious damage. ... She told me that I would run around the house naked singing out some kind of made up language. ...

• Word Count: 788
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The woman in the wallpaper is imprisoned in the domestic sphere, in which women are expected only to clean the house and take care of the children. ... The exterior of the mansion is described as a series of closed-off sections, while the room she rests in, with its numerous barred windows and immovable bed, was probably formerly used to house an insane inhabitant. ... It creeps all over the house. I find it hovering in the dining room, sulking in the parlor, hiding in the hall, lying in wait for me on the stairs" (584). ...

• Word Count: 1237
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

If he changed the wallpaper, next "it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then the gate at the head of the stairs, and so on." (186) The one thing she detested the most about the room was the yellow corruptly sculpted wallpaper, that she described as looking "as if a boys" school had used it," (185) showing the wear and tear of such an adolescent's touch. ... In her last days at the house, she fails to figure out the wall's purpose and shreds it of its paper leaving it bare. ...

• Word Count: 1100
• Approx Pages: 4