The Wallpaper's Pattern
It’s definitely not a coincidence that the woman in the wallpaper is trapped behind a pattern. Because so is the narrator.Even before the woman in the wallpaper and the narrator merge into one (s...
The Paper
Scholars have made a lot of the fact that the narrator starts referring to the wallpaper as "the paper." Given that the narrator has a repressed literary bent, it's no great stretch of the imaginat...
Moonlight
What do the woman trapped behind the yellow wallpaper and werewolves have in common?Yes, we know they're both fictitious. But they're also both activated by la luna. During the day, the narrator wr...
The House
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The Bed
Q: What's big, heavy, and chained up?A: Victorian female sexuality! (And also, the narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper"s bed.)We know we just made Victorian women sound super-kinky, but we're actuall...