The Yellow Wallpaper

Paper instructions:
You will write an analysis of the story of The Yellow Wallpaper.
This essay should focus on how one particular element of the work carries out the work’s theme. In other words, you will want to identify the central thought of the work and show how the author uses the element you’ve chosen to convey this idea. You will want to include several quotations from the work in order to support your thesis.
The first part of the essay should introduce us to the work, naming its title and author. Next, you should briefly summarize the work. Then, state the theme of the work, which should be followed by your thesis statement (how a particular element carries out this theme). The body of the essay should then progress through the work, isolating and quoting examples of your chosen element and explaining how they are linked to the theme you’ve identified. The conclusion should tie these ideas together, re-stating how effective the work is in its use of the element(s) to support the theme.
be typed in 12 point Times or Times New Roman.

The Yellow Wallpaper
. Examine one of Play It as It Lays, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” “Miss Brill,” or “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” and consider how the depiction of setting contributes to one or more of the story’s key goals. Some questions to consider to spark your thinking on this topic: In what way is the setting itself a kind of character in the story? What role does this character play? How does the setting affect the characters in the story and how do the depictions of and responses to the setting reflect the characters’ perspectives, desires, struggles, etc.? Basically this question is about the world represented in the story: what is this world like, what does the story have to “say” about it, and how does it accomplish this commentary? ). Please give your essay a descriptive title, one that relates to your specific focus and argument.

The Yellow Wallpaper
. Examine one of Play It as It Lays, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” “Miss Brill,” or “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” and consider how the depiction of setting contributes to one or more of the story’s key goals. Some questions to consider to spark your thinking on this topic: In what way is the setting itself a kind of character in the story? What role does this character play? How does the setting affect the characters in the story and how do the depictions of and responses to the setting reflect the characters’ perspectives, desires, struggles, etc.? Basically this question is about the world represented in the story: what is this world like, what does the story have to “say” about it, and how does it accomplish this commentary? ). Please give your essay a descriptive title, one that relates to your specific focus and argument.