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“It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.” How does this opening sentence of Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” NOT immediately suggest the Gothic?
AThe uncommon nature of the event
BThe reference to ancestral halls
CThe first-person narrator
DThe dichotomy between the concepts of ordinary and estate
Correct answer
C. The first-person narrator
Explanation
The correct answer is The first-person narrator.