The Yellow WallPaper

Choose three quotations from thenYellow Wallpaper that convince you that the protagonist is an unreliable narrator and explain why for each.

The Narrator is a young, upper middle class woman, who is newly married and a mother, who is suffering from depression. The narrator whose name may or may not be Jane is highly imaginative and a natural storyteller, though her doctors believe she has a “slight hysterical tendency.” The story is told in the form of her secret diary, in which she records her thoughts as her obsession with the wallpaper grows. which could be that maybe not everything  was a fancy and she’s an unreliable narrator.

” Sometimes I think it’s a great many women behind , and sometimes only one , and she crawls around fast and her crawling shakes it all over ”

The protagonist can not make up her mind whether there is one woman in the wallpaper or many. I don’t believe she is depicting herself to be in the right state of mind because it is conflicting to speak about walk paper and to suggest that a woman on the wall paper is crawling to make it shake. Maybe this woman, or these women were only in her imagination. The protagonist is proving to be an unreliable narrator here because she is unable to convince you of one thought without considering another.

” John is a physician( and perhaps I would not say this to a living soul of course, but this dead paper and a great relief to my mind.)Perhaps that is one reason I don’t get well faster”

I feel that the protagonist is unreliable in this statement because it is not clear her husband is or not a real physician. Though she never actually completed her thought she always  contradicts herself several times. The narrator who is telling this story about herself states that shel was talking to dead paper when in reality she was talking to herself because the paper was never alive.

“I don’t like to look out of the windows even—there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast. I wonder if they all come out of that wall-paper as I did?”

this is final scene, just before John finally breaks into her room, the narrator has finished tearing off enough of the wallpaper that the woman she saw inside is now free and the two women have become one.The woman behind the pattern was an image of herself she has been the one “stooping and creeping.”

 

 

Final review quote

“When I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or white men and black men or even men and women, I saw the world divided into people who had slept with somebody and people who hadn’t, and this seemed the only really significant difference between one person and another. I thought a spectacular change would come over me the day I crossed the boundary line.”

1. The Bell Jar

2. Sylvia Plath

3. Esther who is the protagonist and narrator

4.This quote shows that Esther live in a world of limited sexual choices. Convention dictates that she will remain a virgin until she marries. If she chooses to have sex before marriage, she risks pregnancy, displeasing her future husband, and ruining her own name.

5.Esther looses her virginity with someone she does not expect to marry. regardless of this firm goal, she finds it difficult to gain an independent sexual identity.

 

Glossory

offishness

Cadaver

Fancy

Scarifying

crux

Bell Jar

Croon

Pad

Sheer

Tinseled

Gay

hunky-dory

spasmodically

Shawl 

writing a glossary actually helped me to understand the readings threw out this semester. the more you understand a specific word you don’t know the more clear the story is. i will keep on writing a glossary to add more into my vocabulary and have the capacity to analysis the text faster and easier than before.

Jostling

jostling-  verb

https://www.google.com/#q=jostling

push, elbow, or bump against (someone) roughly, typically in a crowd
Recitatif

“Roberta didn’t acknowledge my presence in any way and I got to thinking maybe she didn’t know I was there. I began to pace myself in the line, jostling people one minute and lagging behind the next, so Roberta and I could reach the end of our respective lines at the same time and there would be a moment in our tum when we would face each other”.

twyla was bumping people while going through the line.

 

Bell Jar

Bell Jar – noun

a bell-shaped usually glass vessel designed to cover objects or to contain gases or a vacuum

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bell+jar

The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

“wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air”

Throughout this story the significance of the bell jar was very important here we see Esther feeling that she is inside of a bell jar because she is suffocating within her own thoughts. Esther is not able to express what she truly feels in this is why she feels trap.

hunky-dory

hunky-dory

adjective

informal
adjective: hunky-dory; adjective: hunky-dory fine; going well.
Recitatif

My ears were itching and I wanted to go home suddenly. This was all very well but she couldn’t just comb her hair, wash her face and pretend everything was hunky-dory. After the Howard Johnson’s snub. And no apology. Nothing“.

Twyla pretend everything was fine.

 

crux

crux
noun 
the decisive or most important point at issue
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/crux
Quicksand page 19 PDF
“that was the crux of the whole matter. for Helga, it accounted for everything, her failure here in Naxos, her former loneliness in nashville.”
 Helga realizes that she will not be able to solve he engagement issue. It is a problem that needs a resolution.

Gay

Gay
adjective

 sexually attracted to someone who is the same sex
of, relating to, or used by homosexuals
happy and excited : cheerful and livel

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gay

“Miss Furr and Miss Skeene” by Gertrude Stein

The word “gay” is widely used throughout the text (136 times, to be more exact). Back when it was written, in 1925, the word in question had exclusively the connotation of “happy and excited : cheerful and lively”. Many people attribute Stein’s work for having baptized the term with the meaning “homosexual”, as we are used to nowadays, due to the homoerotic-charged feel of the essay.

The word “gay” and its meanings through out history have been recently and constantly questioned, and in some cases battled. It is a popular belief that until the middle of the 20th century the term referred primarily to being happy, and had no sexual connotations whatsoever. the term itself was not used by the general public until the 1950’s but it was used within the homosexual community as a way of describing themselves by at least 1920. It is, however, doubtful that the general public would use the term. When “Miss Furr and Miss Skeene” was published in Vanity Fair in 1923.

Tinseled

tinseled- noun

Something sparkling or showy but basically valueless

adjective

Gaudy, showy, and basically valueless

What the Scar Revealed by Zohar sead

“Her lapis doves and
tinseled mountains are misplaced and glorified behind plates of glass at
museums.”