Choose three quotations that present the married couples relationship – explain what you understand about John as a character and the protagonist as a narrator.

1-“John laughs at me of course , but one expects that in marriage”

This statement helps me understand that John as a character has a lack of respect for his wife. Though the narrator is telling her story she seems to once again he unreliable in this statement. She seems to be bothered by his laughter , but passive at the same time. The narrator is implying that everyone feels that it is to be expected of your husband to laugh at you. She however has no supporting facts.

2-” John is away all day and even some nights when his cases are serious. I am glad my case is not serious, but these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing”

reading this statement would make you think that her husband leaves her alone I this room all of the time neglecting her condition. the narrator is contradicting herself by stating that she is “glad that her case is not serious” but then stating that her troubles are “depressing”. She is using her own words against herself. I feel she may be compromising the consistency of the plot.

3-“The fact is I am getting a little afraid of John”

john seems a bit controlling as a character. Based on what I read In the Yellow Wallpaper she is not just now becoming afraid , but just beginning to recognize it. Her job as a narrator is to make the reader suspenseful and though fiction , make her story believable. she dies nit make it clear exactly what he is doing that is making her afraid.  I can tell that the narrator wanted John to seem stern and in doing so she made her story less believable.

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

1- ” 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 the pint that she is trying to make. How can someone of a stable mind feel relief talking to paper? Though she never actually completed her thought she 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 w as talking to herself because the paper was never alive.

2-” I am glad my case is not serious, but these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing”

The protagonist states her case is not serious and the. In the same breath states her nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. How can someone who is dreadfully depressed be glad?  This narrator is making it very difficult to believe her story. I feel that she is adding thoughts in places where they don’t belong.

3- ” 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 is unable to make up her mind whether there is one woman in the wall paper or many. I don’t believe she is portraying herself to be I 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.

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