Read the excerpt from "The Yellow Wallpaper." I think sometimes that if I were only well enough to write a little it would relieve the press of ideas and rest me. But I find I get pretty tired when I try. It is so discouraging not to have any advice and companionship about my work. 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. I wish I could get well faster. But I must not think about that. This paper looks to me as if it KNEW what a vicious influence it had! Which part of this excerpt best demonstrates the narrator’s social alienation?
Answer
A
“I think sometimes that if I were only well enough to write a little it would relieve the press of ideas and rest me.”
B
“This paper looks to me as if it KNEW what a vicious influence it had!”
C
“It is so discouraging not to have any advice and companionship about my work.”
D
“When I get really well, John says we will ask Cousin Henry and Julia down for a long visit.”
Explanation
The narrator’s social alienation is shown most clearly when she says she has no “advice and companionship” about her work. This directly expresses her isolation and lack of supportive connection with others. The other choices focus on writing, her strange perception of the wallpaper, or a possible future visit.
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