Written response 2: “The Yellow Wallpaper”

After reading this story and Gilman’s supplement “Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’”, and

after reviewing the earlier instructional videos in this week’s folder, pick one of the prompts

below and write a response of at least two full pages, typed and double-spaced.

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Prompt 1:

Describe the narrator of the story as a character:

? What is she like? What are her habits, interests, obsessions, relationships, et al.?

? How does her narration style reveal who she is?

? How do you react to the situation she finds herself in?

Prompt 2:

Describe the wallpaper as fully as you can (using, of course, what the narrator tells you about it):

? What are its colors, shapes, textures, lines?

? How could it be symbolic or representative of the narrator?

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As always, do not summarize or re-tell the story; if you do, your writing will become a book

report, and I will not like it.

Remember, our primary focus in Unit 2 to this point has been character: all those elements, both

external and internal, that serve to shape who we are. Begin your response with this idea in mind,

but feel free to analyze other fictional elements that are present here (setting, plot, description, et

al.) which enlarge the story’s conception of character.

Submit this document to the Assignments dropbox by the deadline listed in your assignment

calendar. The dropbox link is located below this document in the Week 3 folder; look for the

folder titled “Written response 2: upload.” Make sure you save your file in a MS Word-

compatible format: .doc, .docx, .odt, or .rtf. Do not copy/paste a link into the text box, only

a saved file from a drive or cloud server.

This will count as a 10-point daily work grade. Late submissions will be penalized as stated in

the grading policy in the syllabus.

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