Annotation of Yellow Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1899. It is a story of the mental development of a person who stays in a colonial house with his friend, John. The whole transaction is written from the point of view of the writer: herself. Short stories usually focus on few characters. This short story has three main characters: John, Jennie, and the author. John is a physician. He hardly stays at home because he has a lot to do down in the town. Jennie is a mysterious

quality of said annotations, to a point today where I can say I have found the best personal method for annotating so far. This did not come instantly, and was a learning process led by various assignments, essential questions, and complex articles. The first ‘phase’ of my annotations experience can be characterized simply as unorganized.

involved: “The Yellow Wallpaper,” “The Birthmark,” and “The Goose Girl”. This paper will focus on analysis based on figurative languages used either consciously or unconsciously, the passivity of the characters, motivations, role performed in the story, and the agendas used by the various authors. The point of this analysis is to show how various authors have used short stories to give the world a diverse message that can be spun in many different directions. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story