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The Yellow Wallpaper + https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/yellowwallpaper/…
The Yellow Wallpaper +
https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/yellowwallpaper/
(literary devices + characters)
characters
Writer
female
diagnosed with 'nervous'
-depression
-condition
-weakness
does not agree with cure
(through writers eyes)
John
very rational
caring
wrong about cure
John
patronizing
does not care to look closer at writer
plot
John, writer, maid + child move into house
writer: room alone
diagnosis
no working/writing
story is written in secret
no baby (too nervous)
awake at night, sleep by day
following the wallpaper
start seeing woman
night: behind wallpaper
day: outside
last day: stripping off wallpaper
throw away key, secured by rope: becomes the woman
John enters
creep on him
places
nursery
bars
wallpaper (ripped off)
bed nailed down
chew marks
John's room
only John
Baby's room
no energy to see baby
motifs & symbolism
foreshadowing
hallucination of woman --> herself
irony
situational: she gains "insight" but loses sanity
dramatic irony: also foreshadowing