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The Yellow Wallpaper
Storytelling encompasses a variety of perspectives or points of view used to narrate a story. These viewpoints reveal the narrator’s stance and attitude towards the characters. The different points of view encompass first person, second person, third person, objective, and limited omniscient. First person point of view entails a narrator who is a character in…
| author | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
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| genre | Short story,Fiction,Reference work |
| originally published | January 1892 |
| description | "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. |
| characters | The Woman in the Wallpaper, John, Mary, Narrator, Jennie |
| information | Text: The Yellow Wallpaper Plot: “The Yellow Wallpaper” details the deterioration of a woman’s mental health while she is on a “rest cure” on a rented summer country estate with her family. Her obsession with the yellow wallpaper in her bedroom marks her descent into psychosis from her depression throughout the story. Location: “The Yellow Wallpaper” takes place in a colonial mansion in the countryside. The narrator describes it as beautiful but isolated. Thus, she states, it is quite alone, standing well back from the road, quite three miles from the village., |
