Reading response for "The Yellow Wallpaper"

If you haven't done a reading response that means you must do one on the "The Yellow Wallpaper" and one on "The Things They Carried." Again, you need to complete a total of two reading responses by Thursday, January 22nd.

Reading Response for Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” (226)

Due: Tuesday, January 20

For this reading response, I want you to do something a little different; I want you to do a close reading. Choose a short passage from the story, anywhere from a paragraph to a half page. The passage you write about is up to you; follow your own instincts. Read the passage carefully; go through all the words and look up any you don’t know. Then think of the major themes of the story and choose one that the passage best demonstrates. Look carefully at all the words in the passage that relate to this theme and circle them. Be sure to consider connotation. Also, look for anything in the style, such as symbols, that relate to the theme. Look also at the actions of the characters and the way the narrator says (or doesn’t say) things. Your reading response should be a write up of your findings. State what passage you chose and what theme you think it reveals. Then demonstrate how it does so with the evidence you discovered above.