Question

Which textual detail from “The Yellow Wallpaper” is most clearly connected to Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s critique of the rest cure?

A)“Dear John! He loves me very dearly, and hates to have me sick.”
B)“This wallpaper has a kind of sub-pattern in a different shade, a particularly irritating one, for you can only see it in certain lights, and not clearly then.”
C)“I always fancy I see people walking in these numerous paths and arbors, but John has cautioned me not to give way to fancy in the least.”
D)“Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good.”
E)“John thought it might do me good to see a little company, so we just had mother and Nellie and the children down for a week.”

Answer 1

Answer:

D.) "Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good.”

Explanation:

A major reason she became depressed was how she was unable to express her creative side through writing. This exemplifies the author's personal opinion that her work helps her feel good.

Answer 2

The story "The Yellow Wallpaper" is narrated by Charlotte Perkins Gilman an American writer. This short story is about a Women who is suffering from mental illness and is obsessed with the yellow wallpaper she placed on her bedroom's wall.

Central idea of the story

• The story revolves around the deteriorating mental health of the women in the story who is entangled in a marriage.

• The women is obsessed with a yellow wallpaper on the wall of her bedroom and she is shifting into psychosis from depression in the story.

• The author criticized the situation of a women in a marriage using the psychological horror tale.

Therefore it is clear from the story that the women is searching for a cure through her obsession and the option D "Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good" is most appropriate regarding the question.

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