The Story Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte is set in a house that is, “The most beautiful place! It is quiet alone, standing well back from the road, quite three miles from the village.” “There is a delicious garden! I never saw such a garden- large and shady, full of box- bordered paths, and lined with long grape-covered arbors with seats under them”. “There were also greenhouses” (pg. 514).
The lady in the story seems to be getting sick. After talking a little bit about the location of the house that her and her husband lives in she moved onto talking about their bedroom which seems to be a room the she spend a lot of time in because all John her husband will let her do is sleep. She seems to have a lot a time looking at what the bedroom looked like because she never likes to sleep. She starts to explain one night what the old yellow wallpaper looks like on the wall when she couldn’t sleep one night. “It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It was a nursery first, and then a playroom and then a gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls”. The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smoldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight” (pg.514).
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Lauren,
You've chosen two interesting passages here relating to the story's setting: the first passage you quote shows the narrator's initial, positive impression of the summer house. The second passage then shows how the narrator begins to see her room in the house as "repellent, almost revolting."
So far, this response just shows these two contrasting impressions. To take this response deeper, you could comment on those impressions. Why do you think the narrator's impression of the room changes? What might be happening to her?
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