The Yellow Wallpaper Society and Class Quotes Page 1
Citations follow this format: (Section.Paragraph)
| Quote #1 It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. (1.1) |
The narrator thinks of herself and her husband as "ordinary people." How accurate is that? Remember that they have servants, including a housekeeper and a nanny.
| Quote #2 If a physician of high standing, and one's own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression--a slight hysterical tendency-- what is one to do? (1.10) |
Here, John’s status in society as a doctor and a husband both conspire against the narrator’s articulation of her own illness.
| Quote #3 I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus--but John says the very worst thing I can do is to think about my condition, and I confess it always makes me feel bad. (1.17) |
The narrator is cut off and isolated from the rest of the society. Is that the real source of her madness?
