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1. The radio drama organization Scribbling Women put on “The Yellow Wallpaper” as a radio play and you can listen to it here. How has the group adapted the short story for the radio? What aspects of the story come alive in the audio version? What do you think is lost when the story adapted from print?


2. You can read “The Yellow Wallpaper” in etext with its original illustrations in the January 1892 issue of New England Magazine on this site. How do the illustrations affect your reading of the story? Do you think they influence how a reader in 1892 would have read the story? In a positive or negative way?


3. Read Deborah M. De Simone’s essay “Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Feminization of Education.” How does “The Yellow Wallpaper” provide an early look at Gilman’s feminist ideas of new freedom for women at home and in greater society?