Until further notice, you can get your writing prompts here as well as from Blackboard. A note on the responses: Please don’t spend time summarizing or retelling the story (I’ve read it; I know what happens). Instead, focus on your own ideas and interpretations, what you think is important. And, as always, please point to specific examples from the text when responding.
1. “The Yellow Wallpaper” was written in 1892. Is there anything in the story that seems contemporary? That is, does it remain relevant in 2009? Be specific.
2. “You think you have mastered it, but just as you get well under way in following, it turns a back-somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you. It is like a bad dream” (771). On a very surface level, these lines are about the wallpaper, but what else could the narrator be describing?
3. How is the narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” similar to Minnie Wright in Trifles? How is she different?
4. Interpret some of the narrator’s descriptions of the wallpaper. What do you think the images are symbolic of?
5. What do you think the narrator is denied the very things she needs in order to feel better? Do you think John is intentionally trying to keep her ill? If not, why doesn’t he give her what she needs? Are there any clues in the story?
6. Where do you think the narrator is? What clues does Gilman give us, and why is the setting significant?
7. At the end of the story, the narrator feels like she has escaped from the paper. Has she?
1. “The Yellow Wallpaper” was written in 1892. Is there anything in the story that seems contemporary? That is, does it remain relevant in 2009? Be specific.
2. “You think you have mastered it, but just as you get well under way in following, it turns a back-somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you. It is like a bad dream” (771). On a very surface level, these lines are about the wallpaper, but what else could the narrator be describing?
3. How is the narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” similar to Minnie Wright in Trifles? How is she different?
4. Interpret some of the narrator’s descriptions of the wallpaper. What do you think the images are symbolic of?
5. What do you think the narrator is denied the very things she needs in order to feel better? Do you think John is intentionally trying to keep her ill? If not, why doesn’t he give her what she needs? Are there any clues in the story?
6. Where do you think the narrator is? What clues does Gilman give us, and why is the setting significant?
7. At the end of the story, the narrator feels like she has escaped from the paper. Has she?
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