The Yellow Wallpaper Gender Quotes Page 1
Citations follow this format: (Section.Paragraph)
| Quote #1 My brother is also a physician, and also of high standing, and he says the same thing. (1.11) |
The men in the narrator’s life have prestigious, active jobs and their opinions dictate the way she lives her life.
| Quote #2 [Jennie] is a perfect and enthusiastic housekeeper, and hopes for no better profession. I verily believe she thinks it is the writing which made me sick! (2.77) |
John’s sister Jennie embodies the ideal woman of this age.
| Quote #3 Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over. […] |
This is a passage demonstrating the intersection of confinement and gender – the narrator sometimes sees many, many women imprisoned by the pattern.
