The Yellow Wallpaper

*What happened to the narrator of the story?*

~ The narrator basically became crazy as the story went on.

~ As the story progressed she became more aware of her life style because as she saw the images on the wallpaper she was really seeing her non-freedom life style. 

~ She finally in some kind of looney way releases the soul, thus in a way releasing her own.

*List 10 concrete details the author uses to show what happened to the narrator.*

1. ~ "... absolutely forbidden to 'work..."

2. ~ "... John says the very worst thing I can do is think about my condition, and I confess it always makes me feel bad."

3. ~ "... it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern..."

4. ~ "... here are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast. I wonder if they all come out of that wall-paper as I did?"

5. ~ It focuses exclusively on her own thoughts, feelings, and perceptions.

6. ~  The narrator is in a state of anxiety for much of the story, with flashes of sarcasm, anger, and desperation.

7. ~ The struggle between the narrator and her husband, who is also her doctor, over the nature and treatment of her illness leads to a conflict within the narrator’s mind. 

8. ~  The narrator decides to keep a secret journal, in which she describes her forced passivity and expresses her dislike for her bedroom wallpaper.

9. ~ The narrator completely identifies herself with the woman imprisoned in the wallpaper.

10. ~  The narrator spends her time crawling on all fours around the room because she identifies herself to the lady in the . Her husband discovers her and collapses in shock, and she keeps crawling, right over his fallen body.