Students’ Questions about Literature Page 76

The wallpaper symbolizes the protagonist’s deteriorating mental state. It also symbolizes the oppressive nature of the patriarchy.

The main character in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a woman who is suffering from post-partum depression. She is confined to a room with yellow wallpaper and she starts to believe that there is a woman living in the wallpaper.

The rumors about Gatsby were that he was a bootlegger and that he was in love with Daisy Buchanan.

To Kill a Mockingbird was published on July 11, 1960.

Victor Frankenstein’s strongest motivation for creating life was his desire to play God and create something that had never been created before.

The theme of Romeo and Juliet is love and hate.

Juliet is thirteen years old.

The title of the book is a metaphor for the destruction of innocence. The book is about a young girl, Scout, who witnesses the trial of a black man accused of a crime he did not commit.

Frankenstein is a novel by Mary Shelley. The novel tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque, sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

Frankenstein was written by Mary Shelley and was first published in 1818.