The Yellow Wallpaper
Please post one or two higher level thinking questions (application, analysis, synthesis, or evalutation) inspired by "The Yellow Wallpaper." Be sure to read the other questions before posting your own to avoid repetition.
posted by Kristin L | 10:54 AM
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Are the women who crept around part of the lady's imagination, if not what are they doing creeping around in feilds and behind wallpaper?
Does the author use the idea of the main character being the woman trapped behind the wall as a representation of her being trapped in a life controlled by others?
If narrator says that she had to creep over John every time; how many times did she creep and what determined when one time was over? Why does she have to?
Because she is the woman in the wallpaper and she has been creeping over John(and Jennie) for a long time, what does it mean now that she has escaped? Is she finally free?
How does the path that the main character travels relate to the path traveled by Phoenix in "A Worn Path," and how might their purposes be related?
Do you believe that the woman felt as if she was the one trapped in the wallpaper the whole time, or did she become so entranced with it that she finally mistaken herself and the woman in the paper as the same?
What role do each of the other characters play in the mental state of the main character at the end of the story? Did they cause it, or would it have happened anyway?
Is the woman the one who is truely trapped in the wallpaper, if she is why does the author portray this feeling of being trapped?
Throughout her life, Gilman was an ardent women's rights activist, yet the narrator’s final and thoughts and actions revolve around creeping—the epitome of subservience. Does such an ending reflect the author’s feminist views and ideas, or does it speak of the futility of such beliefs?
The wallpaper, after time, served as almost an antidote to the womans problems, even though at first it made her uncomfotable and distressed; how can something that bothers one so much, grow to be an object that is hard to live without?
The charactor often talks of fear and nervousness, and the color yellow represents cowardace. Did the author purposly use such an appropriate color?
Does the woman in the wallpaper connect with the woman outside of the wallpaper? How so?
Why does the main character hate the wallpaper at first, but grow to rely on it for her happiness? Does it have to do with control?
Do you believe that the protagonist actually became the woman in the wall or did she simply go crazy and think that she was?
How do you think that the lady's ever-worsening condition can be related to the cynism found in An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge?
At the begining of the story, when then woman refers to her husband not believing that she is sick; is she refering to an everyday type of illness? or does she know from right then that something isn't quite right?
How is the womans image of the outside garden similar to that of Peyton's "vision" of his house and family?
How could the yellow wallpaper be compared or related to John, in a sense of driving the woman crazy and not being able to understand it?
For anyone in our class who happens to be checking out the blog, Corey from my 6th hour class found the following article written by the author of "The Yellow Wallpaper":
http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/whyyw.html
Gilman (the author) talks about her own experience with the rest cure and her reason for writing "The Yellow Wallpaper."
Enjoy!
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