1) The narrator’s imaginative power leads her down a spiraling pit of hysteria as she pictures women trapped behind the bars of the yellow wallpaper during the night, observes shadows creeping behind the wallpaper in the moonlight, and imagining herself trapped inside the wallpaper as a prisoner of her own mind; thus finding herself going completely insane at the conclusion of the story when she finally has the opportunity to tear the dreaded wallpaper. Her husband feels that these imaginative scenes only make her more weak and frail, so he suggests she stay in the nursery and rest to regain her strength and become more able bodied and able minded. Paragraphs describing the narrator’s imagination at work describe how she suffers from frenzy, mental distortion and madness in her mind; her friends and family around her putting her ailment to a rest by suggesting she be confined to the nursery to better her mentally and physically through bed rest and no social contact. The rest cure seems like the only suitable option judging by the way her husband and family looks down upon her and her unstable metal health care.
2) Since she knows her husband’s treatment is similar to the infamous Weir Mitchell, she knows that when she goes to see him for his aid in her ailment, the kindness and compassion her husband gives her will diminish and she will only be left with the harsh cruelty of Weir Mitchell. The narrator knows her husband’s medical solutions mimic Weir Mitchell, therefore she has already come to the conclusion that when she handed into the hands of the sinister doctor, her accustomed feeling to kindness and compassion will leave her for she is faced with the fact that she is not in the hands of her husband’s care any longer, but in fact in the custody of Weir Mitchell. Her husbands leniency and gentle “understanding” is something Weir Mitchell will not give her so the narrator has already amped herself to accept that she will endure the same medical treatments from Mitchell but not acquire nearly as much sympathy and love her husband gave her. It is signs of favoritism almost due to the fact that the man that took care of the narrator was the husband and wanted to be a gentle and loving as possible, not just professional.
3) The description of the wallpaper foreshadows future events through the intense detail of the wallpaper and portrayal of emotion. The narrator has already shown her utter dislike to the horrendous wallpaper and has written about it in her diary to control her wondering thoughts. Details that give notice to her unrelenting irritation with the wallpaper come from the line: It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study… This snippet concludes that the narrator will not cease to observe the wallpaper and the sight of its irritates her to no end, erupting more waves of constant unnecessary studying that aid her into her evident hysteria at the end of the story. Also, the adjectives used to describe the wallpaper can also be used to describe the writing style the narrator uses throughout the duration of the story. She starts of formal and observant in certain occasions, goes into a frenzy of descriptive words and phrases in another section- most due to the wallpaper irritation, uses words that personify inanimate objects in certain parts of her diary, and begins writing in five syllable sentences that depict no emotion and so forth. Her writing and the style of the wallpaper and correlate in those particular ways of beginning as plain and formal to out of control and fancy.
4) Her actions of biting off a piece the bed show the relation of her weakened willpower to stay in “control”. Throughout the story, she is contantly found battling with herself to stay sane and in control of her addiction to tearing of the yellow wallpaper. At the end of the story, she lets go into her passion and finds herself going into a frenzy with all her mental issues being the forefront of her anger and frustration. This scene is, also, an inevitable one because it was bound to happen sooner or later. The entire story discussed her growing obession with the wallapaper and the deepening mental unstability she dug for herself. The scene where she "cracks" was the final solution to her hysteria and delayed or suppressed feelings that were fated to take control.
5) Jane is the wife that has been suppressed under her husbands ruling for so long, allowing another to control her life and not speak for herself; letting her inner woman die along with her thoughts. John had fainted and the wife and the woman"trapped" was liberated and set free to be herself from oppression
6) A tenement is a small house or an apartment in the Lower East Side part of Manhattan that housed a family between four and eight in a very small bedrooms while living with a border. A sweat shop was the workplace inside the tenement that had very crampped spaces where dozens of people would work sixteen-eighteen hour shifts. Crime, disease, fires, etc. roamed freely and were able to be reproduced. Due to body heat, the room temperatures were abnormally high and the people who worked there were underpaid.
7) Abraham Cahan described the realities of the sweatshop with a light tone that touched the subjects harshness but not enough to give a mentla image of the cruelty. In sweatshop romance, there are clues and hints of endless work hours and humid work enviorments that were packed with people in a small room, but there was not enough detail to portray the crime, disease, fires, and other diasaters that occured there. The "Sweat Shop Romance" was enough to give the reader an idea of the life of a Jewish immigrant worker but not enough to relate the text back to any similar instances with enough detail to provoke imagery. The descriptions of work and leisure among Jewish immigrants compare to the photographs in the archive by giveing the text a "face". A reader can read about the cruelties and imagine the scenery based on the given information, but the photographs help put the sweat shops in braod daylight by giving visual evidence of the way things were conducted. The pictures were the visual portrayl of what the articles describing sweatshop life were like.
8) Many media personal portray the slums of American Urban areas as poverty ingested, predominately minority-Blacks, Latinos- with wrecked homes, broken cars, drug trafficing on the corner, prostitutes on every street, gang members on each block. They portray the slums as a modern day hell for people to live in due to the high crime rates and potential harm that can come about from living in that certain area.