Well done, all!
There’s been some very good reflection on each character.
Jennie
She does certainly seem as constant presence and static sort of person. However, we know from the narrator that she is curious about the wallpaper. Discuss the following quotes:
- She caught Jennie looking at the paper and also ‘I caught Jennie with her hand on [...]
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Feedback on The Yellow Wallpaper
Posted in Reading Journal 4: The Yellow Wallpaper on November 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Caracterization of Jennie (“Yellow Wallpaper”) by Neus Giner
Posted in Reading Journal 4: The Yellow Wallpaper on November 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
To characterize Jenny, John’s sister, is easy in the way that she is a really static character. In fact, she doesn’t change at all in the whole story, as we can not see an evolution of this character.
The first words that we read about her are: “Such a dear girl as she is, and so [...]
Characterization of JOHN in ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ (by Arlinda Rezhdo)
Posted in Reading Journal 4: The Yellow Wallpaper on November 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
To characterize John is sometimes easy and sometimes difficult. You have to think of many actions he does and at the same time you have to see him in his wife’s eyes.
It’s pointless to note that John is the narrator’s husband, but the truth is that that’s what he is. In fact he’s the one [...]
THE YELLOW WALLPAPER by Cecilia Astolfi
Posted in Reading Journal 4: The Yellow Wallpaper on November 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The yellow wallpaper is almost personified (eg, the curves “commit suicide”); it’s described with lots of details, and all adjectives and connotations are negative.
There is a connection between the first descriptive sentence, “it is stripped off”, and the successive moment of madness of the protagonist, when she’ll pull it off, as if other women [...]
