When reading "The Yellow Wallpaper", a reader cannot miss noticing the importance of the setting in which the action takes place. ... The author takes the opportunity to relate elements of setting with symbols and meanings beyond the first reading's impressions. The house that the characters rent for the summer as well as the surrounding scenery is introduced right from the beginning. ...

• Word Count: 2394
• Approx Pages: 10
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

John arranges for them to move to an isolated house for the summer "solely on her account " in order for her to have "perfect rest and all the air [she] could get. " Although the narrator asserts, "I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change would do me good, " she adheres to her husband's orders and moves into the old nursery at the top of the house. ... In a feminist reading of the text, Triechler further cl...

• Word Count: 1676
• Approx Pages: 7
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate