An excerpt from the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)
I don’t feel as if it was worth while to turn my hand over for anything, and I’m getting dreadfully fretful and querulous.
I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.
Of course I don’t when John is here, or anybody else, but when I am alone.
And I am alone a good deal just now. John is kept in town very often by serious cases, and Jennie is good and lets me alone when I want her to.
So I walk a little in the garden or down that lovely lane, sit on the porch under the roses, and lie down up here a good deal.
I’m getting really fond of the room in spite of the wall-paper. Perhaps BECAUSE of the wall-paper.
It dwells in my mind so!
I lie here on this great immovable bed—it is nailed down, I believe—and follow that pattern about by the hour. It is as good as gymnastics, I assure you. I start, we’ll say, at the bottom, down in the corner over there where it has not been touched, and I determine for the thousandth time that I WILL follow that pointless pattern to some sort of a conclusion.
I know a little of the principle of design, and I know this thing was not arranged on any laws of radiation, or alternation, or repetition, or symmetry, or anything else that I ever heard of.
Based on information from BOTH excerpts, which draws the MOST logical conclusion?
Responses
A Both authors knew each other and collaborated on their story lines.Both authors knew each other and collaborated on their story lines.
B Both narratives will address the internal conflicts of their characters.Both narratives will address the internal conflicts of their characters.
C The narratives will change to address increasingly intense external conflicts.The narratives will change to address increasingly intense external conflicts.
D Both authors will modify the point of view to allow for an omniscient perspective.Both authors will modify the point of view to allow for an omniscient perspective.
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