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The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

There is a very funny mark on this wall, low down, near the mopboard. A streak that runs round the room. It goes behind every piece of furniture, except the bed, a long, straight, even smooch, as if it had been rubbed over and over.
I wonder how it was done and who did it, and what they did it for. Round and round and round
—round and round and round—it makes me dizzy!
I really have discovered something at last. Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out.

Use the excerpt from "The Yellow Wallpaper" to answer the question.
What effect does the use of first-person point of view have on the reader's experience of the ending of the story?

A.
It allows the reader to have an intimate view into the husband’s worried state about his wife’s declining mental health.

B.
It shows the reader that the husband anticipated a negative outcome from placing his wife in that room.

C.
It lets the reader encounter the narrator's feeling of triumph in thinking she has freed herself from the wallpaper.

D.
It permits the reader some insight into the initial cause for the narrator's declining mental health.

Answer 1

C. It lets the reader encounter the narrator's feeling of triumph in thinking she has freed herself from the wallpaper.

The use of first-person point of view in "The Yellow Wallpaper" allows readers to connect deeply with the narrator's mental state and her transformative experience at the end of the story. This perspective immerses readers in her thoughts and emotions, highlighting her perceived triumph and sense of freedom as she believes she has liberated herself from the constraints of the wallpaper.