The Yellow Wallpaper

Question 1

Author

Answer 1

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Question 2

Connection

Answer 2

Story of an Hour

Question 3

Why this story?

Answer 3

Traditional gender roles, female oppression, escapism, freedom, confinement, patriarchy

Question 4

Themes

Answer 4

Mental + emotional harm and manipulation, infantilization, domestic martial duties, gender roles, female oppression, women’s limited role + lack of opinion and deciding power, patriarchal society, isolation, rest cure, lack of research on women’s health, intellectual stimulation, creativity, rationality, social + artistic outlets, confinement, self-discovery, freedom, insanity, postpartum depression, postnatal stigma + treatment, distrust, miscommunication, barrier in understanding, psychosis, empowerment, escape.

Question 5

Tone

Answer 5

Helpless, pained, anxious, resentment, paranoia, obsession, confined, unsettling

Question 6

Diction

Answer 6

unnamed narrator with no specific characteristics, educated + proper + formal to confused + insane + unstable + manic + hysterical + delirious

Question 7

Literary devices

Answer 7

Symbolism, imagery, situational irony, simile, metaphor, personification, repetition, foreshadow