The Yellow Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper was kind of an interesting story in the sense that the woman clearly had something wrong with her. She constantly found something wrong with the room, (nursery) she was living in as her own bedroom with her husband who was a doctor. I don't know how she got her nervous disorder, she mentioned that the woman taking care of her said that her "sickness' could have come from her writing, but the things she would say in her journal and throughout the story were just weird. That the wallpaper had so many different shades of yellow and that it moved and that it merely had a personality and that behind the wallpaper there was a woman crawling around and shaking the wallpaper. I also paid attention to the way she described her husband and brother who are doctors, as if they thought they were "know it alls" because they have that title in that profession. Towards the end of the story, she begins to actually like the room, a little; because they are going to be leaving it. On the final day of her having to stay at that house with the horrendous yellow wallpaper, she tears it apart, acts like a crazy person(she is) teaming up with the so called woman behind the wallpaper to get rid of it. Her husband comes home in such shock that he faints.

Well, I am choosing to write about the story The Chrysanthemums. I thought the story was kind of interesting although at times it was hard to understand. I didn't like the character of the man with the wagon because I am not a fan of a begger. He asked to do some work for money and she denied, so then he chose to manipulate her and make her feel bad. After there "moment" of her feeling happy and proud giving him some of her precious flowers to give to the neighbor, she decided to find something for him to do for fifty cents. After his disappearance, she got ready for her husband to come home and then go to a nice dinner. On there way to dinner she saw the flowers that she had given to the ol dirty, and grungy man thrown out on the road. From her character, I took that she wanted to have more respect, like a man. Her and her husband Henry don't have children. She stays at home and from the story, she laid out the man's clothes for him, and stayed in the garden for the majority of the day, as if that was her job because, she was just a woman and couldn't have a real job; only to stay home and provide for the man.