Analyze your own interpretation of The Yellow Wallpaper, resulting in your identification of an issue raised in the text as well as a literary claim, alongside your analysis and incorporation of literary critics claims about the story.

For this essay, you need to do two things: Analyze your own interpretation of The Yellow Wallpaper, resulting in your identification of an issue raised in the text as well as a literary claim, alongside your analysis and incorporation of literary critics claims about the story.

For your analysis, you might consider doing something like, isolating an aspect of the story, perhaps based upon a literary element such as theme or character, and developing a literary claim, such as through Johns fainting, Gilman seems to imply that he is left without any clear gender role to support him when his wife defies his manly effort to keep her what his society would consider sane (Johnson 213). This is a good thesis. Note, the use critical sources by literary scholars that examine similar aspects of the text. For example, it analyzes Johns collapse in the story and compares the interpretation to critics views on the same issue. Another approach could be to examine the effects that the so called “rest cure” has on the narrator, possibly connecting them to the confining gender roles placed on females at the time.

Required Sources:The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman .
Also required: at least two works of scholarly literary criticism (academic journal articles and/or books) For your essay, you need to locate literary criticism by scholars (experts/academics/Ph.Ds) in the field of Literature. Basically, you will research the analyses of other academics writing about this same short story. The best place to locate scholarly literary criticism is in published books or academic journal articles. You may not use Wikipedia, Sparknotes.com, Schmoop.com or any other commercial (.com) websites for your two required secondary sources. However, you can reference and cite other CREDIBLE (trustworthy) sources to enhance your essay.

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