Update for A1 -- The Yellow Wallpaper (redux)

 Now I am assigning you the happy task of reading "The Yellow Wallpaper" and the following article in which the author describes why she wrote it.  

These words might be new to you:  felicity, querulous, delirium tremens, undulating, melancholia.  If you aren't sure what they mean, you will find them in the story and article.  You might look them up or you might be able to figure them out by looking at the context in which they are used.

Here are some questions you might want to consider after you read the story:

Are you like John? (How is he described?)

What is her situation?  Do you envy her at the beginning?  Do you sympathize with her?

Do you agree with her that “congenial work . . . would do [her] good”?

What unusual word and phrases does she use to describe the wallpaper?

Why won’t John let her fix up the room?  Why does he insist that they use the room with the wallpaper?

Why is she afraid to be “caught” writing?

How does the story end?  (There is some controversy about this.  What do you think?)

 Could this story be written today, in the 21^st century?  Would the situation and the characters be believable?