Bonus blog question! Why does the wallpaper come to seem quite different by night?

How does the wallpaper come to represent the narrator's real problem?

Does the narrator's husband love her?

Is "The Yellow Wallpaper" a horror story?

What feelings are conveyed by "Borges & I?"

Why does Mann's narrator bother to remark a yellow dog & a second wagon, only to dismiss them (p. 155)?

Is Lobgott a tragic figure, or a comic one?

Is "The Path to the Cemetery" an allegory?

If so, can you elaborate on its correspondences? If not, how do you explain character names like Praisegod and Life?

Of what value is the frame story in Rilke's tale?

Any clue why Timofei opposed Yegor's marriage (p. 151)?

Where does Yegor's sad tone come from (p. 154)?