THE YELLOW WALLPAPER Literature 1892. Written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. | |||
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1 | July 4 | Dates | No Year | Journal Entries | |||||||
July 4 Mother and Nellie and the children visit the narrator and her husband John at the colonial mansion where they're staying over the 4th of July. The narrator's journal entry: "Well, the Fourth of July is over! The people are gone and I am tired out. John thought it might do me good to see a little company, so we just had mother and Nellie and the children down for a week. Of course I didn't do a thing. Jennie sees to everything now. But it tired me all the same." | |||||||||||
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Narrator Narrator: I've got out at last, in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back! | |||||||||||
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Narrator Narrator: The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing. | |||||||||||
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Narrator Narrator: The outside pattern is a florid arabesque, reminding one of a fungus. If you can imagine a toadstool in joints, an interminable string of toadstools, budding and sprouting in endless convolutions - why, that is something like it. | |||||||||||
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Narrator Narrator: It is the strangest yellow, that wall-paper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw - not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things. | |||||||||||
6 | Pattern | Other | Themes | Shield, The | |||||||
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7 | Untitled | Other | Themes | Dark Shadows | |||||||
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