Due Wednesday-The Yellow Wallpaper

You will need to read "The Yellow Wallpaper" (153-164) and be prepared to discuss it on Wednesday.
However, please perform the marking the text activity below (which is the first part of the story) before you read the entire story.

The marking the text task:

1. Copy and paste the information below onto a piece of paper and print. You may need to change formatting a bit to make it readable and give yourself some margins and spacing.

2. Read the prompt carefully.

3. Read the passage marking evidence and margin thoughts/insights that would allow you to discuss the prompt.

4. Finish marking the text, put aside, and read the rest of the story making no changes or additions to what you originally wrote.

(Copy and paste below here)

Prompt: Read the following excerpt and analyze how the author's use of diction, syntax, point-of-view, and selection of detail contribute to the characterization in the passage.

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity—but that would be asking too much of fate!

Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it.

Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted?

John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.

John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures.

John is a physician, and PERHAPS—(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind)—PERHAPS that is one reason I do not get well faster.

You see he does not believe I am sick!

And what can one do?

If a physician of high standing, and one's own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—what is one to do?

My brother is also a physician, and also of high standing, and he says the same thing.
So I take phosphates or phosphites—whichever it is, and tonics, and journeys, and air, and exercise, and am absolutely forbidden to "work" until I am well again.
Personally, I disagree with their ideas.

Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good.

But what is one to do?