illustration of a woman looking at the complex pattern of the yellow wallpaper and seeing the image of another woman within the pattern

The Yellow Wallpaper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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The Yellow Wallpaper Questions by Tag

Themes

Mental Illness
Oppression
Gender Roles
Isolation
Feminism
Women's Oppression
Repression

Symbolism

The Wallpaper

Characters

Narrator
John

Literary Devices

Imagery
Personification
Dramatic Irony
Irony
Gothic Literature

Comparative Analysis

The Yellow Wallpaper
Bliss

Plot

Narrator's Illness
Rising Action

Setting

The Room
The House

Quotes

Sometimes I Think There Are a Great Many Women Behind, and Sometimes Only One, and She Crawls Around Fast, and Her Crawling Shakes It All Over
One of Those Sprawling Flamboyant Patterns Committing Every Artistic Sin. It is Dull Enough to Confuse the Eye in Following, Pronounced Enough Constantly to Irritate and Provoke Study, and When You Follow the Lame Uncertain Curves for a Little Distance Th

Style

Narrative Style

Historical Context

Victorian Age

Narrative Perspective

Unreliable Narrator
First Person

Genre

Gothic Literature

Authorship

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Critical Reception

Feminist Criticism