http://blogs.setonhill.edu/taydornin/files/2014/10/yellow-wallpaper.jpg

Think about narrator reliability, about who the reader is (implied reader, ideal reader, narrate) (read about these terms in a comment on this post)

Power dynamics:

“Cottagette”: man and woman, where he isn’t in control of her, wants her to be who she is rather than expecting something from her; This is the case for Malda and Ford, but not for everyone

Striking sense of equality that Ford brings into the story

“The Yellow Wall-Paper”: man in control of the woman

John treats her as…through his actions he laughs at her, tells her she isn’t sick, how he regulates her treatment based on not believing she’s sick.

Narrator writing to rebel; to keep sane

Setting:

Time that they’re living in: turn of the 20th century, late 1800s: context

Question:

who is the woman in the wallpaper? what is the relationship between the woman and the narrator

Patterns:

john always controls her

fancies

Difficulty:

YW-P harder to understand: patterns,