“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Study Questions
1.
What seems to be the matter with the narrator?
2.
What are the things she takes and does to help her condition?
3.
What is the biggest problem the narrator has with her bedroom? BE SPECIFIC. Why can’t this problem be
fixed?
4.
What does the narrator feel improve her condition? Why doesn’t she do it?
5.
How does she start obsessing about the room’s wallpaper? BE SPECIFIC. Why do you think she does this?
6.
Why do you think the narrator begins to “lie down ever so much” now?
7.
What does the narrator begin to see in the wallpaper?
8.
When do we see the narrator become a bit more delusional?
9.
What could the pattern in the wallpaper symbolize? EXPLAIN
10. Why does she begin to doubt her husband?
11. Why does the narrator peel off yards of wallpaper?
12.
How does the woman in the wallpaper change?
13. Describe the ending of the story. BE SPECIFIC AND THOROUGH.
Find 5 passages that show how John, the narrator’s husband, treats her in regard to her condition. What
does this say about him? Use a separate piece of paper to continue writing.