Click to read the passage from "the yellow wallpaper," by charlotte perkins gilman. then answer the question. what tone is created by the gillman's word choice in this passage? a. agitated b. light–hearted c. peaceful d. formal

The correct answer is A. Agitated. In Charlotte Perkins Gillman's "The Yellow Wallpaper", her narrator's tone is passive, disturbed, paranoid, and intimate. The narrator is all the time between sanity and insanity; masculine and feminine roles; and the freedom of nature and the prison of the domestic bedroom. The tone is suggestive of one who is insane.