The Yellow Wallpaper

  Compose a comparative essay Links to an external site.on one of the topics below. Select two of the assigned stories from Week 2 (Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers," or Wharton's "Afterward") and explain how and why these stories use the gothic genre as a vehicle for critiquing patriarchal society. If you choose this option, you will need to perform close readings of relevant supporting quotations.