LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE GOTHIC NOVEL
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The reference to ancestral halls
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The uncommon nature of the event
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The first-person narrator
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The dichotomy between the concepts of ordinary and estate
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the first sentence of this story, “It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer” (307) tells us that the narrator and John are either high-end middle class or upper class because the ancestral halls would not be available for the lower class.
Detailed explanation-2: -Which of these sentences from the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses verbal irony? It is so hard to talk to John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so.
Detailed explanation-3: -The yellow wallpaper in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a symbol of society and patriarchy. It is ugly, faded, and torn in some spots, and a figure of a woman is trapped in the paper. It symbolizes women, or the woman in the story, being trapped within the constraints of a patriarchal society.
Detailed explanation-4: -In “The Yellow Wallpaper, ” yellow symbolizes the narrator’s illness as well as the sickness of the oppression she endures as well as her growing awareness of the oppression.
Detailed explanation-5: -"The Yellow Wallpaper” details the deterioration of a woman’s mental health while she is on a “rest cure” on a rented summer country estate with her family. Her obsession with the yellow wallpaper in her bedroom marks her descent into psychosis from her depression throughout the story.