Question

Click to read the passage from "The Yellow Wallpaper," by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Then answer the question.

Answer 1

A. Agitated because when he say's" 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!

I tried to lift and push it until I was lame, and then I got so angry I bit off a little piece at one corner — but it hurt my teeth."

Answer 2

The correct answer is A. Agitated. In Charlotte Perkins Gillman's "The Yellow Wallpaper", her narrator's tone is passive, disturbed, paranoid, and intimate. The narrator is all the time between sanity and insanity; masculine and feminine roles; and the freedom of nature and the prison of the domestic bedroom. The tone is suggestive of one who is insane.