Desiree's baby questions for study and discussion answer key

"The Yellow Wallpaper "The Story of an Hour" and "Desiree's Baby." 1. Why yellow wallpaper? What things are bad and yellow? A) Yellow wallpaper was chosen by her husband choice due to how it made him feel. It helped him relax his anger more, and it's known as a resting cure for his diagnoses and used as a treatment. The wall represents a woman being stuck behind the wall and cant get out. The wall shows the relation between him and his wife by expressing it with ugly yellow messy paper and resembling the family structure, how it treats his illness, and expressing their emotions. This relationship has domestic violence. The things that are bad and yellow is that the ghost being stuck in the wall and cant get out, and violence among the relationship. B) There are some things that are yellow and bad, such as plaque, you know the stuff that is on your teeth and makes them look yellow. Cigaret tar that sticks itself to your walls making them yellow, is another example. Depending on your skin’s tolerance, the sun can be bad. Sulfur is yellow and it smells bad. The wallpaper was old and faded. The color may not have initially been yellow, but with age it became old and faded to that color. The narrator didn’t like the color. Later as she was becoming insane she said the paper smelled bad, which could refer to a sulfur smell, maybe. I have seen many wallpapers that have become old have changed to a dingy yellow color and it makes it look bad. That bad look can become a focus for your attention, since the narrator became fixated on the wallpaper, that could be why it was yellow wallpaper. C) The wallpaper is representation of something that affects her and her life. As the story goes on the wallpaper symbolic-ness changes. At first she just stares at the design trying to figure out how it is organized. Later she sees a ghost like pattern behind the main pattern. That main pattern now becomes like a jail and that ghost becomes her. She feels like the wallpaper is like the domestic life that has her and so many other women trapped. I wasn't exactly sure what to respond with what things are bad and yellow, but from what I can think of; anything with yellow that are bad can be considered like the wallpaper. They are barriers around things, such as tape at a crime scene or if there is something toxic. It always seems to represent a surrounding of something bad in life. 2. How are “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The Metamorphosis” alike? How are Gregor and this narrator alike? A) "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "The Metamorphosis" were alike in the way that the narrator and Gregor had something in common. They both were unhappy with their life but did things to make the ones they loved happy. Gregor for example worked to support his family. His family felt they couldn't survive without him. The narrator from "The Yellow Wallpaper" stayed home and listened to her husband to keep him content. Another thing that is the same in both stories is that Gregor and the narrotor from the other story both felt trapped or like they were not free. Gregor was in a room for the reminder of his life. And the narrator was also trapped, not being able to leave her house. They both lacked freedom. B) The characters in “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The Metamorphosis” both go through changes, the narrator goes through a mental change, insanity, and Gregor goes through a physical change, becoming a bug, which in a way frees them both of responsibilities that they had, that perhaps they are not really ready for or feel to restricting.