the wallpaper smelt like a yellow smell in the yellow wallpaper.
what does the wallpaper smell like in the yellow wallpaper?
a yellow smell
the narrator devotes many journal entries to describing the wallpaper in the room – its "yellow" smell, its "breakneck" pattern, the missing patches, and the way it leaves yellow smears on the skin and clothing of anyone who touches it. she describes how the longer one stays in the bedroom, the more the wallpaper appears to mutate, especially in the moonlight. with no stimulus other than the wallpaper, the pattern and designs become increasingly intriguing to the narrator. she soon begins to see a figure in the design, and eventually comes to believe that a woman is creeping on all fours behind the pattern. believing she must try to free the woman in the wallpaper, the woman begins to strip the remaining paper off the wall.
the yellow wallpaper
bullet::::- full text of "the yellow wallpaper". retrieved january 22, 2008.









































bullet::::- the full text of "the yellow wallpaper" at the cuny library









































bullet::::- gilman, charlotte perkins. "why i wrote "the yellow wallpaper"", "the forerunner", october 1913, accessed november 15, 2009.









































bullet::::- the yellow wallpaper, audio, cbs radio, 1948.









































bullet::::- "the yellow wallpaper" a 2006 film inspired by the short story that relies on the gothic/horror interpretation.









































bullet::::- bak, john s. (1994). "escaping the jaundiced eye: foucauldian panopticism in charlotte perkins gilman's 'the yellow wallpaper'," "studies in short fiction" 31.1 (winter 1994), pp. 39–46.
the yellow wallpaper