In "The Yellow Wallpaper," Gilman's narrator stops writing about her illness: "So I will let it alone and talk about the house." What motive does this shift show?

Gilman's narrator writes: "There comes John's sister. Such a dear girl as she is, and so careful of me! I must not let her find me writing." What motive does the last sentence reveal?

In "The Yellow Wallpaper," the narrator writes: "I get unreasonably angry with John sometimes. I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition." Which internal conflict does this express?

The narrator writes: "I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time." She adds: "Of course I don't when John is here, or anybody else, but when I am alone." What does this contrast show?

In Gilman's story the narrator writes: "John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him." Which reading does the passage support?

The narrator writes: "John is away all day, and even some nights when his cases are serious." Then: "I am glad my case is not serious!" Which reading do the two lines support?

The narrator writes: "It is fortunate Mary is so good with the baby. Such a dear baby!" She adds: "And yet I cannot be with him, it makes me so nervous." Which internal conflict does this express?

Gilman's narrator writes: "I never thought of it before, but it is lucky that John kept me here after all. I can stand it so much easier than a baby, you see." How does she handle her confinement here?

The narrator writes: "I lie down ever so much now. John says it is good for me, and to sleep all I can." Later she writes: "The fact is, I am getting a little afraid of John." What change does the later line mark?

In Gilman's story the narrator writes: "It strikes me occasionally, just as a scientific hypothesis, that perhaps it is the paper!" What does the careful phrasing do?

The narrator writes of Jennie: "Did not that sound innocent? But I know she was studying that pattern, and I am determined that nobody shall find it out but myself!" Which reading does the passage support?

The narrator writes of John: "He might even want to take me away." She adds: "I don't want to leave now until I have found it out." Why does she keep her interest in the paper secret?

The narrator writes of the figure in the paper: "I don't blame her a bit. It must be very humiliating to be caught creeping by daylight!" She adds: "I always lock the door when I creep by daylight." What does the pair show?

The narrator writes of John: "He asked me all sorts of questions, too, and pretended to be very loving and kind." She adds: "As if I couldn't see through him!" Which reading do these lines support?

The narrator writes: "I have locked the door and thrown the key down into the front path." She adds: "I want to astonish him." What motive do these lines give for locking the door?

In Gilman's story: "Jennie looked at the wall in amazement, but I told her merrily that I did it out of pure spite at the vicious thing." Why does the narrator offer this explanation?

The story ends: "Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!" What does the reader understand that the narrator does not?

The narrator tells John: "I've got out at last," and then: "And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!" What does she claim here?

In "The Yellow Wallpaper," the narrator's husband, John, is a physician who has forbidden her to work until she is well.

The narrator writes: "I've got a rope up here that even Jennie did not find. If that woman does get out, and tries to get away, I can tie her!" What does this plan show about how she now sees the figure?