The protagonist in "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a nameless woman who is suffering from postpartum depression. She becomes increasingly obsessed with the wallpaper in the room where she is confined, leading to a deterioration in her mental state.

Pineapple is a yellow fruit with 9 letters. Tangerine has 9 letters, but isn't too yellow.

The Story of a Modern Woman was created in 1894.

The smudge is where the woman (unbeknownst to the reader) has been creeping around and around the wall, as she does in the end.

Matthew 9:20 - "And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:"