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... She begins to gain mental strength from the wallpaper. ... She begins analyzing the wallpaper. ... This is clear when she says, “ there are things in the that wallpaper that nobody knows but me. ...
Setting
q Establishes powerful role, and reinforces the theme of control
q Settings in this story portrays different moods among the relationships between the narrator and her husband John
q Ultimately the story reveals the narrator’s insanity
q The narrator suffers, what her husband calls, “temporary nervous depression- a slight hysterical tendency”
q John takes her to an asylum, but he makes her believe that they are visiting a regular ancestral hall in the summer to allow her to get some rest
q “A colonial mansion, hereditary estate,” is how the narrator describes the asylum
q She mentions how beautiful and alone it is, reminding her of English places
q She describes the delicious gardens and broken greenhouses that surround the house
q Myself as a reader, am convinced that this house is a beautiful house to visit, but it proves the narrators insanity because she does not recognize the house as an asylum
q Bars on windows represent a prison (asylum) she thinks it was a child’s room
q The wallpaper in her room appears as a “dull, smouldering unclean yellow,” all the details shows her insanity
Themes
q Feminism- female imprisonment.
Approximate Word count = 484
Approximate Pages = 1.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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