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    This document provides the lesson plan and discussion questions for a literature course about the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The lesson directs students to read the story and complete an active reading worksheet. It then lists 15 discussion questions about the plot, characters, setting, and themes of the story. The questions analyze the narrator's deteriorating mental state and her obsession with the wallpaper in the house she resides in with her husband over the summer.

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    ENG 13 LG 2 Lesson 3

    Course: Popular, Contemporary, & Emergent Literature (ENG13)


    Instructor: Zerrah Jil P. Lobreguito
    LG 2, Lesson 3: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Short Story)
    https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/theliteratureofprescription/exhibitionAssets/digital
    Docs/The-Yellow-Wall-Paper.pdf

    Directions: Concisely answer the following questions about All Summer in a Day by
    Ray Bradbury.
    Part I
    Fill-out this Active Reading Worksheet as you go along the story. (Worksheet is
    uploaded as a separate assignment.)
    Part II
    1. Why have the narrator and her husband, John, rented the "colonial mansion"?
    What is its history, and what is the reaction of the heroine to this estate? Does
    she feel comfortable living in the house?
    2. Give a description of John. Why does the heroine say that his profession is
    "perhaps . . . one reason I do not get well faster"? How does the narrator view
    her husband? Does she agree with John's diagnosis and treatment? Who else
    supports John's diagnosis? What effect does this have on the heroine?
    3. What clue does the narrator's repeated lament, "what can one do?" give us
    about her personality? Describe other aspects of the woman's personality that
    are revealed in the opening of the story. What conflicting emotions is she having
    toward her husband, her condition, and the mansion?
    4. How would you characterize the narrator's initial reaction to, and description of,
    the wallpaper?
    5. Describe the narrator's state after the first two weeks of residence. Has John's
    relationship with his wife changed at all?
    6. Who is Jennie? What is her relationship to the narrator, and what is her function
    in the story?
    7. How has the narrator changed in her description of the wallpaper? Is it fair to
    say that the wallpaper has become more dominant in her day-to-day routine?
    Explain.
    8. By the Fourth of July, what does the narrator admit about the wallpaper? What
    clues does Gilman give us about the education of the narrator and her
    increasingly agitated state? Is she finding it more and more difficult to
    communicate? Explain.
    9. As the summer continues, describe the narrator's thoughts. What is her physical
    condition? Is there a link between her symptoms and psychological illness?
    10. How does the narrator try to reach out to her husband? What is his reaction? Is
    this her last contact with sanity? Do you think John really has no comprehension
    of the seriousness of her illness?
    11. Why do you think Gilman briefly changes the point of view from first person
    singular to the second person as the narrator describes the pattern of the
    wallpaper? What effect does the narrator say light has on the wallpaper?
    12. Who does the narrator see in the wallpaper? How have her perceptions of John
    and Jennie changed from the beginning of the story?

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    ENG 13 LG 2 Lesson 3

    13. Abruptly the narrator switches mood from boredom and frustration to
    excitement. To what does she attribute this change? How does John react to
    this? What new aspects of the wallpaper does she discuss?
    14. By the final section of the story, what is the narrator's relationship to her
    husband? to Jennie? to the wallpaper? How has the narrator's perspective
    changed from the start of the story? What change to do we see in her actions?
    15. Identify what has driven the narrator to the brink of madness? How does she
    try to free herself from this element? What is her greatest desire? What is the
    central irony of the story?

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