Early Stream of Consciousness and Feminism in Fiction Instruction & Assignment

How does Gilman's reasoning reflect her reaction to the social context in which she lived and wrote? Gilman was showing that "rest cures" prescribed by doctors really worked. Gilman was proving that without an education she wouldn't have recovered. Gilman was challenging the status quo, as many early feminists did. Gilman was challenging the idea that domestic life causes depression.

Gilman was challenging the status quo, as many early feminists did.

" So now she is gone, and the servants are gone, and the things are gone, and there is nothing left but that great bedstead nailed down, with the canvas mattress we found on it. We shall sleep downstairs to-night, and take the boat home to-morrow. I quite enjoy the room, now it is bare again. How those children did tear about here! This bedstead is fairly gnawed! But I must get to work. I have locked the door and thrown the key down into the front path. I don't want to go out, and I don't want to have anybody come in, till John comes. I want to astonish him. I've got a rope up here that even Jennie did not find. If that woman does get out, and tries to get away, I can tie her! But I forgot I could not reach far without anything to stand on! This bed will NOT move!" -"The Yellow Wallpaper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman What conclusion can you draw about the author's use of stream of consciousness? It draws the reader into the experience of sliding into madness. It emphasizes that Gilman does not understand the narrator's struggles. It reflects the social attitude toward women at the time.

It draws the reader into the experience of sliding into madness.

How does this effect support the narrator's viewpoint? It supports the viewpoint that the narrator's problem is all in her head. It supports the viewpoint that "rest cures" could be ineffective and even dangerous. It supports the viewpoint that women cannot care for themselves. It supports the viewpoint that strange surroundings can cause madness.

It supports the viewpoint that "rest cures" could be ineffective and even dangerous.

What effect does the unreliable narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper" have on the reader? The reader doesn't believe anything that the narrator says. The reader realizes that the narrator isn't receiving the medical attention she needs. The reader sympathizes with the narrator's husband. The reader thinks that the narrator is being irresponsible toward her child.

The reader realizes that the narrator isn't receiving the medical attention she needs.

Which of the following describe Charlotte Perkins Gilman's purposes, or reasons why she wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper"? Check the three boxes that apply. to persuade people to think about wallpaper in a different way by considering its potentially maddening effects to inform readers about the effects of society's expectations on a person's mental health to explain why women are naturally more emotionally fragile than men to describe life as a woman in this time period and help the reader connect to the experience to persuade others of the dangers of medical treatment that do not take a patient's wants or needs into account

to describe life as a woman in this time period and help the reader connect to the experience to persuade others of the dangers of medical treatment that do not take a patient's wants or needs into account to inform readers about the effects of society's expectations on a person's mental health

Based on the article you just read, what was Gilman's reason for writing "The Yellow Wallpaper"? to make sure readers knew that she wasn't "mad" anymore to help women avoid the fate she experienced to teach readers how to write a short story to let readers know what insanity is like

to help women avoid the fate she experienced