Talk:The Yellow Wallpaper

message: I won't remove the link under "See Also" mainly because I'm uncertain of particular reasons for its inclusion... However having viewed the "Brown Dog Affair" (read: glanced over), I can find no real relationship between the story and the activism. I understand how they occurred during similar time periods and feature activism of some kind, however comparing feminism to animal activism with nothing else linking the two articles... Seems unnecessary. DelSnazzy (talk) 04:25, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: See Also Questionability

message: I changed the language of this article a bit, and cleared out this talk page (which contained the text of the article itself for some reason.)  This synopsis is good, though we could probably use a few more references.... Geeman 14:58, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: editing

message: I has been claimed that creeping is female masturbation... Which would fit in with the rape idea stated below.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.249.81.128 (talk) 21:03, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Creeping

message: The scene at the end where her husband opens the door is widely seen as the male rape of the woman; this is stated in many interprations of this work; think this should be included.Fishystick 23:36, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Door Opening/Rape

message: I saw someone said this about her husband John, however, from reading the story he doesnt seem at all "well-meaning" towards her. He seems more patrinizing than anything. He be-littles her in many instances. Curiously, I would like to know why the author of this article put he was "Well meaning"? Why did he force her to stay in the room she didnt like? She asked to be put downstairs. Why did he tell her he would take the wallpaper down and then not do it? He was "satisfied" with thinking there was "no reason for her to be upset." He would laugh at her on occasion and basically tell her  hhgh"I am the doctor here so you should obey."
* The problem is that you are reading the story through 21st century glasses.  The husband is well-meaning, but part of the problem is that the gender relationships of the time period are so messed up that he is culturally unable to relate to his wife in any meaningful way.  The author was rather clear she saw the story as attacking the doctor and the gender roles society placed on people - not on the well-meaning but ineffectual and clueless husband.  Rabidwolfe 03:00, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "well meaning husband" 

message: Am i the only person who finds this more in line with Lovecraftian stories of the strange?
This just seemed to be very in line with how Mythos stories are written, where someone finds a terrible secret and then is driven mad by it. 72.166.243.226 04:28, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a very funny observation. I haven't actually heard the Cthulhu reference before, but I think this story fits comfortably within the gothic and supernatural / ghost stories traditions -- as a response to them, of sorts -- and Cthulhu / Lovecraft is also related to those genres. (PS, original research & observations are not appropriate for wikipedia, but if you can find some scholarly publications on this topic it would be appropriate; however, other non-wiki resources (like the http://wiki.feministsf.net/ ) would be appropriate for original research & observations like this.) --lquilter 04:50, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  is this part of the Cthulhu Mythos? 

message: I read this story in a college class, and my teacher had us reread the sections where she describes the wallpaper pattern.  A toadstool in joints (mushroom) and a head on a broken neck with two upside down eyes are the two descriptions.  When my teacher drew it on the board, it showed a pattern of male genitalia.  The woman in the wallpaper is trapt behind bars made of male genitals.  I have not been able to find any better interpretation than this, especially considering the theme of males controlling female's lives back then.
Can anyone see a different picture?  I wonder if there could be other meanings to the shapes described. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Balewis2s (talk • contribs) 23:39, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Description of the Wallpaper 

message: in my class we were asked if the color had any meaning? would the story change any if there wallpaper was red or green doese anyone have any fealings on this? when i told her no she preseeded to tell me that i was wrong and everything has meaning evan the name JOHN ??  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.80.0.2 (talk) 05:53, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  just a question  

message: I've taken out this sentence from "Psychological and Medical Interpretation" section:
"As to what mental illness the woman develops towards the end of the book, it appears to be either psychosis or schizophrenia, judging by her severe delusions and hallucinations."
This sounds like a general observation/opinion which needs a verifiable source before being included. Gingerwiki (talk) 01:58, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diagnosis 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:YellowWallpaperCover.jpg

message: Much of the "Plot synopsis" section is poorly or awkwardly written. Worse, it adds very little that isn't already covered. It should be tightened and cleaned up -- or perhaps deleted altogether. Thoughts? Patricia Meadows (talk) 14:37, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot synopsis 

message: 1891 or 1892? Both are given in the article. Danceswithzerglings (talk) 02:24, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Date of Publication

message: The woman in the story's name is Jane I believe. The reason for this:
Last few lines: "I've got out at last," said I, "in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!" 
The only woman that was in the house with John other than the narrator was Jennie. There was no person with the name Jane ever mentioned anywhere before that.
It can be assumed that the narrator has been possessed by the ghost behind the wallpaper (or has gone mad) and does not see herself as Jane anymore. That is why she says "you and Jane".  --L22W (talk) 17:42, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The narrator's name 

message: Hi 
There is a fatal error in the content:
"Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman (Jane) whose physician husband (John) has confined"
The narrator's name is not Jane, that is the name of the nurse. The narrator has no name. In fact that is one of the points of the story - it could happen to any one.
Regards
Sam
:Hi, thanks for pointing this out. It was changed here. We should probably revert to the version before that. SlimVirgin (talk) 00:58, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  The narrator's name is NOT Jane 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Victorian era wallpaper was often made with toxic arsenic-based dyes, and the theory that microscopic dust flakes from arsenic-containing wallpaper could make people sick was beginning to gain popular acceptance around the time the story was written. The narrator could very well have been stating the literal truth when she said that the wallpaper in her room was causing (or at least exacerbating) her symptoms. CronoDAS (talk) 00:00, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arsenic poisoning? 

message: Hi, I've been working on editing the Gothic double article for the past few months. It is still classified as a stub so I'm looking to divert some more traffic to the article in order for its classification to go up. I have a section on how the motif is used in The Yellow Wallpaper, and was wondering if I could please add a sentence or two in this article mentioning the use of the motif, and with a hyperlink to my own article? Please let me know. Thank you so much! Snowdrop Fairy (talk) 07:52, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request to add link to Gothic double article 

message: Specifically, the third and fourth paragraphs of the section "[f]eminist". Could anyone please tell me where to split them?--Thylacine24 (talk) 05:28, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paragraphs that need splitting