The Yellow Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper

"It was a nursery first and then playroom and gynasium, i should judge, for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls." What inferences can you make about the narrators status from the described setting and imagery? How does it generalize the gender assumptions about women in the late nineteenth century?

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We can assume that the woman is being treated like a child.... like a prisoner in her home.
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