• “The paint and paper look as if a boys’ school had used it. It is stripped off—the paper—in great patches all around the head of my bed, about as far as I can reach, and in a great place on the other side of the room low down. I never saw a worse paper in my life.”

Here the narrator thinks that the wallpaper looks like that boys from school have used it and it not very pleasant to look at.

• “The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.

It is a dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulphur tint in others.”

Here the narrator describes the paper’s color. She can’t make up on her mind on what the color is. This shows she can be very unreliable at anytime according to her mood.

• I’m getting really fond of the room in spite of the wall-paper. Perhaps BECAUSE of the wall-paper.

She is not sure of what is causing her rage towards the room. From here on it seems like she can discover something new that can be the reason behind her spite of the room.

• “Open the door, my darling!”

The narrator states that John is a very controlling person. This quotation from the story seems like john is trying to get her to open the door because he is really mad that’s he doesn’t know what is going on, but proceeds to ask nicely.

“He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction.”

The narrator clearly tell us that he is very controlling. He is loving and caring but won/t let things happen any other way but his way.

“My brother is also a physician, and also of high standing, and he says the same thing.”

Here as her husband he is also a physician. He wants to treat and believes he can. She rejects and says that his brother would say the same about her as he did.

I believe that the “The yellow wallpaper is dystopia because everything is unpleasant to the narrator. There is no peace and is very unpleasant. She is in a bad environment with bad vibes. Where as the “Cottagette” is utopia. Besides all the negative things the husband lets her carry on with what ever she desires. She is in a pleasant environment.

I believe that both stories have a similar setting area. It is just that both characters describe their surroundings very differently. In the yellow wallpaper she is disgusted and annoyed of her surrondings. Malda describes her surrounding as peaceful and exactly the place to be.

I think in the “cottagette” Malda is very reliable. She is steady with her thoughts and feelings about certain things. “Before, when I woke up, there was only the clean wood smell of
the house, and then the blessed out-of-doors: now I always felt the call
of the kitchen as soon as I woke. An oil stove will smell a little,
either in or out of the house; and soap, and–well you know if you cook
in a bedroom how it makes the room feel differently? Our house had been
only bedroom and parlor before.”

She expresses how she loves to cook and clean. She expresses her passion to do this through out the story.

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