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- hi in Florida and working from here this semester nice to meet you all. by the way i love short and fiction story, because they keep you in tense until the end.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper (1899)
i a bit confuse i think she was the lady in the paper, and she was trying to kill her self with rope help me out here people. i know this lady is crazy and all she keep talking about the paper and is her husband cheating on her with Jennie what her name. i don't know, but is she pregnant as well and did she kill herself or her husband.
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Hopefully some of the other bloggers will respond to you.
Read my comments on the other blogs, as well as the blogs themselves; this should give you a good sense of how to approach this story.
In a nutshell, consider the protagonist's (main character's)imaginative interaction/involvement with the wallpaper as symbolic of her internal conflicts (and external ones, as well, in the sense that she is being physically confined, as well as mentally/emotionally).
The story has a lot to say about the socio-cultural condition of women at the time, and the psychological consequences of a repressive ideology.
Since you are in Florida, you won't have been able to pickup my handouts on elements of the short story, glossary of literary terms, and critical approaches to literature; pickup a handbook on writing about fiction--a good anthology, such as Norton's or Bedford's introductions to fiction and/or litetrature, have sections devoted to writing about literature, as well as sample essays.
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