1. What is important about the title? Full question inside

[Jen]

1.What is important about the title, The Yellow Wallpaper? Could the wallpaper have been any other color? What are the psychological implications of the color "yellow"? How would a different color change the story?

[Diane]

While reading the book I didn't really see the significance of the color of the paper but thinking about it a bright color would not have been appropriate.

"The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight."

[Kristel]

It is what she looks at all day and the way she sees the paper gives the reader a feeling for her journey into madness.

[Pip]

Yellow was described as a sickly colour, and it is the narrator's obsession with this sickliness that prompts her descent into madness

[Jan]

The yellow wallpaper in the room Jane's husband chooses for them to occupy at the mansion is oppressive in colour and style. The colour is a sickly yellow, described by Jane as repellent and unclean. It reflects the state of mind her husband tells Jane she is in. I imagined it as a pale mustard yellow, which made me think of words like miasma, gas, fog. It's not a cheerful yellow, which might have brightened Jane's mood.