In The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the author takes us on a journey through the mind of a woman going insane. ... "I'm getting really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper, perhaps because of the wallpaper-. ... "It is the strangest yellow, that wallpaper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw "not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things."" It is this yellow world that the narrator feels that she belongs with the old foul, bad yellow things, not in the green world outside. ...

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"The Yellow Wallpaper": In the Mind of a Disturbed Wife "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is told from a feminist point of view, but I believe the story has a deeper meaning when read through the disturbed wife's eye. ... I am sympathetic to the woman (disturbed wife) in this story because she is definitely a prisoner, struggling within her own mind, and reading "The Yellow Wallpaper" through her mind clearly enhances our insight and interpretation of the story. ...

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How the Yellow Wall Paper Drives the Main Character Insane At the beginning of the story, the character seems fairly normal. ... She is just a little annoyed at the yellow wallpaper. ... Something trying to get out of wallpaper! ... The wallpaper drives the main character nuts. ... The wallpaper plus solitude. ...

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The narrator in "The Yellow Wallpaper " struggled with this very thing, she found solace through writing yet was not always able to do so due to her condition. ... In the "Yellow Wallpaper " the narrator begins by describing the house she was advised to go to, until she recovered from her illness, as being "quite alone " (Gilman). ... In the "Yellow wallpaper " the narrator said she "I did write in spite of them; but it DOES exhaust me a good deal " (Gilman). ... The narrator first described the wallpaper to be "repellent, almost revolting; a smoldering unclean yellow " (Gilman). ... All pe...

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Descent into Madness The descent into madness takes place in both story's the Tell Tale Heart and The Yellow Wallpaper. ... The Yellow Wallpaper deals with a women who is experiencing psychological difficulties. ... This denial of stimulus and her obsession with the yellow wallpaper in the room which she is confined eventually takes its toll on the women and her journey to madness begins. ... In the Yellow Wallpaper he women becomes so disillusioned and obsessed with the wallpaper that objects begin to appear. ... The Yellow Wallpaper. ...

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Jane in "The Yellow Wallpaper" narrates her own life experiences. ... The wallpaper, "At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars!...

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• Has Bibliography
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Self-Assertiveness When I read this The Yellow Wallpaper, my curiosity is not to the girl but to her husband, John. ... When I knew these yellow effects on people, I was surprised because the Color Therapy began studying within a few decades ago; however, this novel was written over on hundred years ago. ... Did he know these yellow effects? ... Finally, she tore away the yellow wallpaper. I think this behavior was her self-assertiveness; she wanted to show her irritation or desires to him by tearing the yellow wallpaper. ...

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• Grade Level: High School