The Yellow Wallpaper | Topics for Discussion
1. Imagine how you would respond to the rest-cure. What would be the most difficult aspect of it? Why?
2. Discuss the limited role women were expected to play in nineteenth-century society. What are the attitudes toward acceptable roles for women today?
3. How do such aspects of the story as setting, character, and point of view heighten the emotional impact of "The Yellow Wallpaper"?
4. Characterize the relationship between the narrator and her husband, John. Consider his terms of endearment and his attitude toward her expressed wishes.
5. In your...
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