Comments on: A Literary Analysis of The Yellow Wallpaper

By: greg

greg — Wed, 26 May 2010 02:32:05 +0000

The term “crazy lady” is terribly misused in this blog entry. Look up a better description for the narrator and make sure it is not offensive to readers who may be affected by a mental disorder.

By: VinceLHarts

VinceLHarts — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:27:49 +0000

Do not use this “article” as a literary reference. If your teacher read this blog, they would laugh. The writer clearly isn’t knowledgeable about the subject he/she is writing. If you are trying to find an actual literary article, I suggest Bloom’s Literary Reference. In no way is the narrator’s name Jane. Also Rachel is correct about the differences between Schizophrenia and “multiple personality disorder.”

By: generic fosamax

generic fosamax — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:07:42 +0000

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By: ParrishCo

ParrishCo — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:00:02 +0000

MLA does not yet have any official rules for citing blog entries or comments. But as the technology becomes more widely used for academic discussions, you may find yourself referencing blogs more often. If you are drawing on a blog as a source, make sure you consider the credibility of the weblog site and/or the author of the posting or comment. Also, check with your instructor or editor to see what their stance is on incorporating evidence from blog entries.

If you decide to use blogs, we suggest the following for how you would cite blog entries and comments depending on the author or sponsor of the weblog.

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Hawhee, Debra. “Hail, Speech!” Weblog entry. Blogos. 30 April 2007. 23 May 2007 .

Read all about it at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/09/

By: tania. gutierrez

tania. gutierrez — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:47:15 +0000

umm yea, i was just wondering… how are people supposed to cite this in a paper?

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:25:10 +0000

Schizophrenia is NOT the same as multiple personality disorder!! which is now known as dissociative identity disorder. Schizophrenia, which i strongly believe the narrator has, is detachement from reality relating to things such as delusions, hallucinations, neologisms and clanging. Dissociative identity disorder relates to multiple personalities each having their own very different characteristics. The narrator is not a reliable narrator on this basis alone. The narrator does not know her husband is watching her, thus making her delusional in seeing “the woman” or “the bars”

By: ParrishCo

ParrishCo — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:32:59 +0000

Thank you Felix. There was a typographical error in uploading this to my website. It has been fixed. Jennie is NOT the narrator. Jennie is John’s (the narrator’s husband) sister who looks after the narrator. The narrators name is never given however it is inferred toward the end of the story to be Jane.

You are, however, on the right track. In the beginning of the story the narrator talks about a woman she sees in the wallpaper. But at the end of the story we read,

“’I’ve got out at last,’ said I, ‘in spite of you and Jane. And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back!’”

This is the narrator talking to John, however the narrator (Jane) has now become the woman that Jane saw trapped behind the bars of the wallpaper in the beginning of the story. That is the brilliance of the work. The narrator was seeing herself in the wallpaper the whole time until that personality overtook the personality we are introduced to initially. Think along the lines of Schizophrenia (multiple personalities).

By: Felix

Felix — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:19:04 +0000

You say that Jennie’s the narrator, and then you say that the narrator’s name is Jane, and that she’s also the crazy lady.
Are you saying they’re both narrators?

“This is a clear indication to me that the narrator’s name is Jane, as revealed by the crazy woman (Jane) who now thinks she was the one in the wallpaper.” That sentence doesn’t make much sense, unless you mean that Jane the Narrator is another character, and not Jane the Crazy Lady. Since the story is told in a first-person perspective.

Couldn’t Jennie perhaps be a nickname for Jane, and that Jane and Jennie are the same person and we never get to know the narrators/main characters/crazy ladys name.

Also, perhaps there’s two Janes in this story (if we assume that the main characters name’s Jane). Jane the Almost-Sane, which is the narrator, and Jane the Insane who’s completely taken over Jane the Almost-Sane by the end.