Gilman, ''The Yellow Wall-paper'' (1899)
One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin. It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide--plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions. The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight. It is a dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulphur tint in others. No wonder the children hated it! I should hate it myself if I had to live in this room long. There comes John, and I must put this away,--he hates to have me write a word.http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/wallpaper.html
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"Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it" (p 1).
"...by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be." (GIlman 6)
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MeaganGemperlein/2009/09/narrator_woman_is_wallpaper_sa.html
"Then in the very bright spots she keeps still, and in the very shady spots she just takes hold of the bars and shakes them hard." Pg 7
"If we had not used it, that blessed child would have! What a fortunate escape!" (Gilman 5).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JamieGrace/2009/09/finally_something_to_be_happy.html
"At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be."
~page 6
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JenniferPrex/2009/09/wallpaper_prison.html
"I lie here on this great immovable bed--it is nailed down, I believe--and follow that pattern about by the hour. It is as good as gymnastics, I assure you. I start, we'll say, at the bottom, down in the corner over there where it has not been touched, and I determine for the thousandth time that I will follow that pointless pattern to some sort of a conclusion."
"A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house..." (p.1) hmmm really a haunted house or just a teaser?
Since I haven't finished please don't ruin it.
"There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down." (Gilman)
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeremyBarrick/2009/09/el_266_the_power_of_yellow_wal.html
"The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smoldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight" (Perkins-Gilman 1)
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KatieLantz/2009/09/what_a_creeper.html
"He said I was his darling and his comfort and all he had, and that I must take care of myself for his sake, and keep well" (5).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaylaLesko/2009/09/whats_up_doc.html
Is Jane just one of the many women that have come through the house and become a prisoner behind the paper?
Yellow
"He said that after the wall-paper was changed it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs and so on." (pp.2)
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/PeachesOstalaza/2009/09/scared_and_confused.html
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DavidWilbanks/2009/09/ah_the_slow_descent_into_madne.html
All is not what it seems.
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GladysMares/2009/09/a_woman_misunderstood.html
The front pattern does move--and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it! (Gilman)
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeredJohnston/2009/09/electro-shock_anyone.html