E 350 Lecture Notes - The Yellow Wallpaper, Murder, Vagueness
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Sunshine galore all ways light, but also exposed. Flamboyant cheerful, luxury, flame, uncontained, wild, personifying. John lack of agency, stop writing, makes worse, reduction to infancy. Descriptions draw you in vivid, fleshed out. Police, himself, fellow inmate, doctor in an asylum, jury, confession to a religious person. Begins in medias res in the midst of things. Purpose of the tale: persuade that he is sane. How he tells the tale is key/crucial to establishing sanity calmly , healthily . To be mad is to not be able to communicate. Motive seems searching for one, arbitrarily fixates on the eye. Calmness when dismembering the body disposing of it. Careful planning and deliberation as he carries out his actions. Lack of awareness of what his statements must signify to others. So obsession with time-keeping is also obsession with death. Open eye time for death cessation of time. Unknown cause of fear that resides in the old man.
