The story is about a cruel husband who makes his wife go insane by supposedly helping her. ... The wife is forced to stay in a room with yellow wallpaper and she sees a lady in the paper. ... The woman in the paper is uncovering truths about how bad the wife's life is. ... I wonder if they all come out of the wall-paper as I did?... The Yellow Wallpaper is part of the feminist theory because "Gilman shows a female heroine that overcomes oppression in many forms to find her own opportunities for personal choice-(Ames). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story "The Yellow Wallpaper" is an account of a mentally disturbed woman, Jane, and her husband's attempts to help her get well by convincing her that continual seclusion and constant bed rest is the only way to cure her psychological condition. The woman is then confined to a room in which she slowly begins to go insane. ... This is evident in statements that she makes such as: "There are always new shoots on the fungus, and new shades of yellow all over it; There is something else about that paper - the smell! ... After retrieving the key from the front p...

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• Grade Level: High School

Jane in "The Yellow Wallpaper" narrates her own life experiences. ... " (Gilman, Paragraph 16) as you can see is her knowing that her husband just follows what society has put out but she knows better, differing from her husbands thoughts. ... Her environment is pretty much prison-like; when Jane wishes for the walls to be changed, he then refuses, making it "that after the wall-paper was changed it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on" (3). ... The paper, not literally physically restraining ...

• Word Count: 870
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School