Consider any of the following questions in your post. If you have a question for further discussion or for clarification, include it in your post. Use the blogging guidelines to help structure your post. Be sure to choose the category Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

(We didn’t discuss the concept of the unreliable narrator in class, but it’s one we want to consider with these stories. If anyone encounters or drafts a good definition of it, share it in the comments here.)

Choose three quotations from “The Yellow Wall-Paper” that convince you that the protagonist is an unreliable narrator and explain why for each.

Choose three quotations from “The Yellow Wall-Paper” that present the married couple’s relationship, and explain what you understand about John as a character, and about the protagonist as a narrator for the way she depicts John.

We might use the words utopia and dystopia to describe the two short stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman that we read. What do those words mean? Which story is utopian and which is dystopian? Why?

How do the different settings come into play in these two short stories by Gilman? In what ways might we read the settings as similar but the inhabitants of those worlds as different?

Is Malda a reliable narrator in “The Cottagette”? why or why not? Incorporate 2-3 quotations into your answer to support your argument.

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