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The Yellow Wallpaper Study Guide

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wallpaper: Infographic

Character Map
Timeline
The narrator's development

Character Map

Charecters Map in the Yellow Paper

Timeline

Timeline in the Yellow Paper

The narrator's development

Stage of Deterioration	Symptoms and Behaviors	Quotes from the Story
Stage 1	Mild Anxiety and Depression	"I wish John would take me away from here."
Stage 2	Obsessive Fixation on the Wallpaper	"The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight."
Stage 3	Hallucinations and Paranoia	"I see things in the paper that nobody but me can see."
Stage 4	Manic Behavior and Self-Destruction	"I pulled and she shook, I shook and she pulled, and before morning we had peeled off yards of that paper."
Stage 5	Complete Breakdown and Psychosis	"I've got out at last...in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!"

This table outlines the stages of the narrator's mental deterioration, the symptoms and behaviors associated with each stage, and quotes from the story that illustrate those symptoms and behaviors. An infographic could then use visual elements to depict the progression of the narrator's mental state, such as a bar graph showing the increase in anxiety over time, or an illustration of the wallpaper changing in appearance to reflect the narrator's perception of it.