The Effects Of Environment On The Narrator

Choose two of the prompts below to complete the Writing Assignment. Each answer should be approximately 300-400 words (2/3 to 1 page long). Please copy and paste the writing prompt before each of your responses.

• • In what ways might one perceive Maggie as confined by her environment? How is Maggie’s potential confinement similar to/different from Edna’s confinement?
  • Why is the theater so inspiring and thought-provoking for Maggie? What significance does the theater have in terms of Maggie’s development through the story?
  • While both Maggie and “The Yellow Wall-paper” reveal environmental effects, the point-of-view also plays a major role. In what way(s) does the first-person, diary-like POV in “The Yellow Wall-paper” contribute to the effectiveness of the story in terms of showing us the effects of environment on the narrator?
  • In London’s “To Build a Fire,” we find a main character who struggles—quite literally—against nature and his environment. Does the narrator seem to have any more control over his fate than the other protagonists in the Naturalist unit? Why?/Why not?
  • In “Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wall-paper,” Gilman explains her personal connections to the fictional short story but explains that, in “The Yellow Wall-paper,” there were “embellishments and additions to help carry out the ideal” and that she “never had hallucinations or objections to [her] mural decorations” (856). Discuss 1-2 such “embellishments” or “additions” and explain how they help to “carry out the ideal” that Gilman spells out in “Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wall-paper’”.

Prepare the document by following the Document Formatting Guidelines located in the Introduction Module. Use Times New Roman 12-point font, 1-inch margins, and double space.