Review questions on "The Yellow Wallpaper"

1. List all the characters in the story

2. Write a brief note on each.

3. What themes are explored in this text? Write in full sentences and write more than one sentence on each theme. Look again at Gilman’s article “Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper”. You may want to consider if you think that such a story is relevant anymore.

4. Discuss the setting of the text. Where and when does it take place? Why is the setting significant to the themes that are being explored?

5. Describe the narrative method and comment on its effectiveness.

6. What does the Yellow Wallpaper itself symbolise (it may be more than one thing)? Quote and comment in your answer.

7. Discuss the significance of the word “creep” in the text (how many times is it used, why it is used so much).