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Class Discussion of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper"

Class Discussion of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper"

Q Read Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" and answer the following questions in a post of 100 words or more. Within 24 hours of the original deadline, return to this "Discussion," read through all of the contributions, and post a 100 word (minimum) response to at least one of your classmates that converses thoughtfully with his/her post and moves the conversation forward. If the narrator is the protagonist in this story, who (or what) is the antagonist? With whom (or what), exactly, is she in conflict? What does the narrator seem to want, and what prevents her from getting it? How does John treat his wife? Do you think he is a good husband or a bad husband to the narrator? Why does the yellow wallpaper become the focus of the narrator's obsession? How and when does this happen? What stories does she read into the wallpaper, and what do these stories mean?

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• I think John, the husband is the antagonist here. She is in conflict with her husband thigh she does not express it mush. The husband want to contain her in those four walls covered in yellow wallpaper whereas she wants to explore what is beyond it. • John was