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"The Yellow Wallpaper"

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  • In what season does the story begin?
    Summer
  • Describe the house in detail
    Surprisingly cheap, might be haunted, aristocratic, queer
  • Describe the room in detail
    Barred windows, nailed furniture, rings on wall, wallpapered, used to be a nursery
  • What can't the narrator do which she does anyway?
    Write
  • Who does the narrator see in the wallpaper? Who might they represent?
    A caged woman / herself
  • What does the woman finally decide to do with the wallpaper?
    Peel it off
  • Who's Jenny?
    The narrator's sister-in-law
  • What's the narrator's husband's job?
    Doctor
  • Describe John in detail
    Knowledgeable, authoritarian, insensitive, controlling
  • Who's Jane?
    Herself??
  • Who creeps at night?
    The narrator / the woman
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