Summary: The Yellow Wallpaper

The narrator uses imagery in this passage when describing the room and the yellow wallpaper. When describing the yellow wallpaper the narrator describes it as, “ the color is repellent, almost revolting; a smoldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the unclean yellow strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.”(Stetson 649) She relates the wallpaper to a school, this helps the reader have a better connection to the image she is analyzing. “ The paint and paper look as if a boys school had used it.”(Stetson 648) The narrator uses words like sprawling, flamboyant, worse, repellant, unclean and other words. The word choice is not positive, it has a vibe that screams “stay away.” The literary device used in this passage is setting. The narrator describes the room, this is the …show more content…
The room was used once a nursery, playroom, and one time a gymnasium. There is barred windows and rings and other things on the wall. The whole room is swallowed but by what she thinks is hideous paper. When it's being described, “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.”(Stetson 648) Since the narrator is a writer her imagination and descriptive abilities tend to run wild. She is stuck in a place with nothing to do but stare at the walls, she just keeps analyzing the room, picking out every little thing, getting to the nitty gritty. The wallpaper around the bed, “great patches all around the head of my bed, about as far as I can reach, and in a great place on the other side of the room low down.”(Stetson 648) In this passage the narrator takes you through the bedroom describing what the paper is like, and is walking the reader through an image. The windows, the walls, the bed. What it once was, and what it now