"The Yellow Wallpaper" is an 1892 short story by
Charlotte
Perkins Gilman. In the story, the narrator
expresses mixed feelings about her surroundings:
Which quotation from "The Yellow Wallpaper" most
effectively
illustrates the claim?
A) "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."
B) "By moonlight-the moon shines in all night
when there is a moon-I wouldn't know it was
the same paper.
C) "I'm really getting quite fond of the big room, all
but
that horrid [wall]paper."
D) "The color is repellant, almost revolting; a
smouldering, unclean yellow, strangely faded by
the slow-turning sunlight."
Charlotte
Perkins Gilman. In the story, the narrator
expresses mixed feelings about her surroundings:
Which quotation from "The Yellow Wallpaper" most
effectively
illustrates the claim?
A) "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."
B) "By moonlight-the moon shines in all night
when there is a moon-I wouldn't know it was
the same paper.
C) "I'm really getting quite fond of the big room, all
but
that horrid [wall]paper."
D) "The color is repellant, almost revolting; a
smouldering, unclean yellow, strangely faded by
the slow-turning sunlight."