In this excerpt from “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, which sentence implies that the narrator is unreliable?

1.) ---There comes John's sister. Such a dear girl as she is, and so careful of me! I must not let her find me writing.---

2.) ---She is a perfect and enthusiastic housekeeper, and hopes for no better profession. I verily; really believe she thinks it is the writing which made me sick!---

But I can write when she is out, and see her a long way off from these windows.

3.) ---There is one that commands the road, a lovely shaded winding road, and one that just looks off over the country. A lovely country, too, full of great elms and velvet meadows.---

This wallpaper has a kind of sub-pattern in a different shade, a particularly irritating one, for you can only see it in certain lights, and not clearly then.

4.) ---But in the places where it isn't faded and where the sun is just so—I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about behind that silly and conspicuous front design.---

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The answer would be Choice 4.

Answer: 4.) ---But in the places where it isn't faded and where the sun is just so—I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about behind that silly and conspicuous front design.---

The speaker in this excerpt is a woman trapped in a room by her family, who believe her to be sick and want her to rest in order to get better. With no mental stimulation other than the wallpaper, she begins to lose her sanity. In option 4, she describes how, in some areas of the wallpaper, she is able to see a strange, formless figure, that seems to skulk about. As this is likely to be her own imagination, we can see that the narrator is not reliable.