The Yellow Wallpaper
3 Quotes and their Analysis
Megan And Angelica
Quote #1
“Your exercise depends on your
strength, my dear…said he, “and
your food somewhat on your
appetite; but air you can absorb all
the time.”
Quote #1
She Doesn’t have much strength from being
in the room for that many weeks. That
means she not going to be able to exercise
and move around.
Quote #1
Shows his authority upon her. He's the
boss so, his way goes. No matter if
she's hungry or not, he's going to feed
her and she has to eat.
Quote #2
“That spoils my ghostliness, I am afraid I’m
but I don’t care--there is something strange
about the house--I can feel it.”
Quote #2
This quote shows how even before going
insane, she felt as if something nonhuman
was already there. Somehow she had a
premonition on how her insanity was soon
to come.
Quote #2
She is weary about the
house because it looks
really strange and scary
almost.
Quote 3
John is a physician, and perhaps--( I
would not say it to a living soul, of
course, but this is dead paper and a
great relief to my mind)--perhaps that
is one reason I do not get well
faster…You see he does not believe I
am sick.
Quote #3
She thinks that the only reason
she wont get better is because of
her husband, and how he doesn’t
believe she's sick.
Quote #3
She writes this because she has nothing
else to do in her time, but she doesn’t want
her husband to see because she thinks he
wont approve, calling it dead paper.