Short Story Analysis
Analyzing Setting of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
1. Do particular aspects of the setting have specific symbolic significance? If so, what are those aspects, and what is their particular significance to theme, conflict, or characterization?
2. Do some or all of the characters’ attitudes toward the setting change? If so, what does this change reveal about the character(s)?
3. Does the setting play a role in the character’s or characters’ development? If so, how?
Integrate short quotations (four typed lines of prose or fewer) smoothly into paper. Be sure to enclose exact wording and phrasing in quotation marks and provide an in-text citation. Use details from short story (quotes and paraphrases) to support interpretation. Topic sentences must be analytically focused.
Thesis statement must posit an argument and not simplify a state of fact.
