1. The Narrator seems to be suddenly getting a lot worse in Pages 6-8, do you see anything which might have caused this?

2. Is there more than one woman behind the wallpaper?

Where does the Narrator first identify the figure as "female," and what seems to be her take on these figures? Are they friendly? Do they provide companionship?

3. "There is one marked peculiarity about this paper, a thing nobody seems to notice but myself, and that is that it changes as the light changes." "At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candle light, lamplight and worst off by moonlight, it becomes bars! "

What has the relationship of light to do with the continuing revelations in the wallpaper?

As the wallpaper begins to come more and more alive, what is happening by contrast to the Narrator?

What does the revelation of bars mean?

4. "I have watched John when he did not know I was looking, and come into the room suddenly on the most innocent excuses, and I've caught him several times LOOKING AT THE PAPER! And Jennie too. I caught Jennie with her hand on it once

"She didn't know I was in the room, and when I asked her in a quiet, a very quiet voice, with the most restrained manner possible, what she was doing with the paper—she turned around as if she had been caught stealing, and looked quite angry—asked me why I should frighten her so!"

What might be an explanation for John's looking at the wallpaper?

Why would Jennie start and look as "if she had been caught stealing?"

The Narrator here takes great pains to make a contrast in the very controlled manner in which she addresses her husband and sister in law. How does this contrast with the way she addresses her journal and what does it mean?

Why is this passage in the piece, what do you think the author is trying to do with it?

5. John seems to refer to the Narrator in more and more childlike terms, and at the beginning of Page 6 the Narrator seems to know who the child really is, and to show a flash of caring, what do John's increased references mean?