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Early Stream of Consciousness and Feminism in Fiction Answers

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Why did Gilman most likely choose an unreliable narrator to tell the story of "The Yellow Wallpaper"?

It helps the reader understand that the narrator is not getting the help she needs.

It encourages the reader to question every detail of the story.

It helps the reader understand the necessity of the narrator’s treatment.

It encourages the reader to sympathize more with all of the other characters.

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Read the excerpt from "The Yellow Wallpaper."I don’t like our room a bit. I wanted one downstairs that opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! but John would not hear of it.He said there was only one window and not room for two beds, and no near room for him if he took another.He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction.Which statement describes a gothic element in this excerpt that reflects a social attitude of Gilman’s time?

John makes decisions on his wife’s behalf, which illustrates that she is not in control of her own fate.

John’s words to his wife indicate that he is a strange and mysterious character who may have other motives.

The narrator’s description of the nearly windowless room contributes to the sense of longing and fear.

The narrator’s description of the rooms that open to the piazza contributes to the sense of mystery and suspense.

Read the excerpt from "Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper.'"Then, using the remnants of intelligence that remained, and helped by a wise friend, I cast the noted specialist’s advice to the winds and went to work again—work, the normal life of every human being; work, in which is joy and growth and service, without which one is a pauper and a parasite—ultimately recovering some measure of power.Which social attitude of Gilman’s era does this excerpt demonstrate?

Working gives people a sense of competence and control.

Working is something that is done with the hands not the mind.

Working is only for those who have to make money to survive.

Working against a doctor’s advice has negative consequences.

In "The Yellow Wallpaper," which description of John indicates that the narrator does not trust him?

When I get really well, John says we will ask Cousin Henry and Julia down for a long visit; but he says he would as soon put fireworks in my pillow-case as to let me have those stimulating people about now.

He asked me all sorts of questions, too, and pretended to be very loving and kind.

He says no one but myself can help me out of it, that I must use my will and self-control and not let any silly fancies run away with me.

John says I musn’t lose my strength, and has me take cod liver oil and lots of tonics and things, to say nothing of ale and wine and rare meat.

Read the excerpt from "The Yellow Wallpaper."The front pattern DOES move—and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it!Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over.Then in the very bright spots she keeps still, and in the very shady spots she just takes hold of the bars and shakes them hard.And she is all the time trying to climb through. But nobody could climb through that pattern—it strangles so; I think that is why it has so many heads.They get through, and then the pattern strangles them off and turns them upside down, and makes their eyes white!If those heads were covered or taken off it would not be half so bad.I think that woman gets out in the daytime!And I’ll tell you why—privately—I’ve seen her!I can see her out of every one of my windows!It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.I see her on that long road under the trees, creeping along, and when a carriage comes she hides under the blackberry vines.I don’t blame her a bit. It must be very humiliating to be caught creeping by daylight!Whom does the narrator see hiding in the wallpaper?

herself, trapped in her life

Jennie, trapped in her job

the neighbor, trapped outside the house

Mary, trapped with the baby

In "The Yellow Wallpaper," which description of the narrator’s room best indicates that it probably was not a nursery in the past?

It is a big, airy room . . . with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore.

The furniture in this room is no worse than inharmonious, however, for we had to bring it all from downstairs.

There is a very funny mark on this wall, low down, near the mopboard.

The windows are barred . . . and there are rings and things in the walls.

Read the excerpt from "Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper.'"The little book is valued by alienists and as a good specimen of one kind of literature. It has, to my knowledge, saved one woman from a similar fate—so terrifying her family that they let her out into normal activity and she recovered.What does Gilman indicate is the impact of her work?

Women are more likely to seek employment that satisfies them.

Women are more likely to have a voice in their own treatment.

Women are more likely to frighten their families in order to escape them.

Women are more likely to read literature that they can relate to.

Read the excerpt from "The Yellow Wallpaper."At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candle light, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be.What does the narrator’s description of the wallpaper reveal about the context of the story?

The narrator feels imprisoned by her life.

The narrator wants everyone to study the wallpaper.

The narrator thinks that the wallpaper hides a secret room.

The narrator prefers to do her writing work at night.

Read the excerpt from "Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper.'"Being naturally moved to rejoicing by this narrow escape, I wrote The Yellow Wallpaper, with its embellishments and additions, to carry out the ideal (I never had hallucinations or objections to my mural decorations) and sent a copy to the physician who so nearly drove me mad. He never acknowledged it.What was Gilman’s most likely reason for sending a copy of her story to her former physician?

She wanted him to prescribe a new treatment plan for her.

She wanted him to come visit her to discuss her work.

She wanted to show him that his treatment plan was wrong.

She wanted to encourage him to continue treating her.

Read the excerpt from "The Yellow Wallpaper."If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—what is one to do?My brother is also a physician, and also of high standing, and he says the same thing.So I take phosphates or phosphites—whichever it is, and tonics, and journeys, and air, and exercise, and am absolutely forbidden to “work” until I am well again. What does the narrator’s description reveal about the social context of the story?

Women were able to make their own decisions about working.

Doctors were believed to be unquestionably all-knowing.

Husbands were reluctant to take doctors’ advice.

Wives were considered to be less fragile than husbands.

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