Seen through the progression of her journal entries in which "The Yellow Wallpaper " is told, the narrator transforms from being obedient, oblivious and nervous and becomes assertive, aware, and ultimately insane. ... While at first she attempts to relieve her need for expression through writing on the "dead paper " within her journal, John's opposition to her writing forces the narrator to take that energy and closely observe the symbolic patterns in the wallpaper instead. ... Instead of writing down her thoughts, she resorts to the wallpaper to uncover her reality. ... The wallpaper al...

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

"The Yellow Wall-Paper is told in first-person narrative through the use of journal entries. ... Lingo's Guide for the "The Yellow Wall-Paper- points out that the story is presented is the result of the woman's forbidden activity, the writing of a journal or dairy-like pages."" ... ("Guide-) That her husband, John, opposes her writing because it was not considered, to be the proper way a woman should act. ... The only way that she can express her own thoughts is through her writing, which John strongly disapproves of because he knows that he is not able to have complete control over...

• Word Count: 1530
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Her husband John is a highly regarded "physician of high standing" who takes the role of authority in treating her and deciding what is best; he prescribes that she have little to no social interaction and that she stop working (writing) until she is absolutely cured. ... The woman is mostly confined to this room with no stimulus except this yellow wallpaper and a journal in which she begins to secretly write. ... The reader can make the connection that the wall becomes expressive at the same exact time that she does (through writing). ... In this section of the text, it becomes ev...

• Word Count: 1342
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These types of activities, reading, writing and thinking only took unnecessary time away from a woman's household duties. ... (Other 15)(Yellow 341) As I ponder over the significant of this passage, I discover several entries in Gilman's abridged diaries/journals that reveal a possible link between the smell coming from the wallpaper and Gilman's life. ... The lack of money forbade her from having much of a formal education, but the love of her work, reading and writing, inherited from her father and great-aunt Kuhns 6 Harriet Beecher Stowe, was Gil...

• Word Count: 1862
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

It depicts a young woman revealing her innermost thoughts in a series of journal entries over a three month span. ... In asylums, those afflicted with this bizarre medical condition would be isolated from all outside distractions, stripped of the right to any form of entertainment, such as writing, reading, drawing, and they were not allowed any human interaction. ...

• Word Count: 1370
• Approx Pages: 5
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The story takes the form of a journal of the main character. ... Gilman has suffered an extreme mental depression as the result of psychiatric treatments, prior to writing this short story. ... She continuously focuses her attention on the surrounding environment and she pays much attention to detail in her journal descriptions, accompanying these descriptions with personal impressions. ...

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

The story is about a young mother's mental deterioration, postpartum depression, in which she is advised, based on medical theories that her husband, as a high standing physician, gave to her, "to abstain from any and all physical activity and intellectual stimulation", which included reading, writing or taking care of her new baby ("The Yellow Wallpaper" 277). ... The story is written in first person, for the unnamed protagonist is the narrator telling the story through her journal that she was hiding from her husband because it was against the "rest cure"....

• Word Count: 2447
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography

She deals with her illness by keeping the journal even though they tell her not too. ... Although London and Gilman have very different styles of writing, their characters face the same themes throughout the story. ...

• Word Count: 1421
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School