‘The Yellow Wallpaper’
Read the story about Gilman’s supplement “Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’”, Answer the prompt below
Prompt 1:
Describe the narrator of the story as a character:
What is she like? What are her habits, interests, obsessions, relationships, et al.?
How does her narration style reveal who she is?
How do you react to the situation she finds herself in?
Prompt 2:
Describe the wallpaper as fully as you can (using, of course, what the narrator tells you about it):
What are its colors, shapes, textures, lines?
How could it be symbolic or representative of the narrator?