ANTH 4220 Chapter Notes -The Yellow Wallpaper, Narratology
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Narrator begins her journal by marveling at the grandeur of the house and grounds her husband has taken for their summer vacation. Her feeling that there is something queer about the situation leads her into a discussion of her illness she is suffering from nervous depression and of her marriage. Contrasts her husband"s practical, rationalistic manner with her own imaginative, sensitive ways. Is particularly disturbed by the yellow wallpaper in the bedroom, with its strange, formless pattern, and describes it as revolting . She describes the bedroom, which she says must have been a nursery for young children. She points out that the paper is torn off the wall in spots, there are scratches and gouges in the oor, and the furniture is heavy and xed in place. John threatens to send her to weir mitchell, the real-life physician under whose care.
