Monday, January 28, 2013

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.

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