The Dreadful Yellow Wallpaper The theme of "The Yellow Wallpaper" is the narrator's sickness towards the yellow patterned wallpaper. In reality the sight of yellow wallpaper frightens her. ... The narrator develops a sense that a woman lives in the yellow wallpaper. ... "The Yellow Wallpaper" takes place in a colonial mansion. ... The narrator has a big airy room on the top floor, which contains the yellow wallpaper. 3 The Yellow paper is a symbol of the narrator's sickness. ...

• Word Count: 520
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• Grade Level: High School

The narrator becomes obsessed with the wallpaper in the room she is made to stay in. ... The narrator does say they were "lucky" to be able to rent the colonial mansion. The narrator seems to be unaware of the full extent of her illness. ... We learn very early on in the story about the narrator's illness. ... The green world was foreign to her; the yellow world was what she was familiar with and comfortable with. ...

• Word Count: 1393
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The yellow wallpaper is more or less disorganized. ... Her eyes are constantly on the yellow wallpaper. ... The yellow wallpaper acts like a mental entrapment for the main character. ... When the narrator was angry she put that onto the wallpaper, so that is why she ripped the wallpaper down. ... "The Yellow Wallpaper" provides symbolic meanings for the main character. ...

• Word Count: 1014
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In looking at "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin and "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Gilman, we will consider the tone and narrative structures in each story. ... In "The Yellow Wallpaper," Gilman's point of view is expressed through first person narration, which provides her readers with short views into the other characters" perception of her and her perceptions of them. The narrator is discovering her fellow woman (herself) imprisoned in the pattern of men, she determines to tear off the paper and free her: "As soon as it was moonlight and that poor thing began to crawl and shak...

• Word Count: 710
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School