The Yellow Wallpaper

Yellow Wallpaper

What is decribed as smouldering and unclean?

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The color of the wallpaper in the narrator's room is described as "smouldering and unclean".

The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.

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