Thursday, October 8, 2009

"The Yellow Wallpaper"
This is very interesting story. I would say it is more of a dairy. The writing of the story is narrator by a first person point of view. As you read this story you get to know her more. She has a great imagination, she thinks wilder than anyone. She talks about her childhood and her experiences with her imagination about her furniture. Although everyone around her believes that she is suffering from a temporary nervous depression; she needs to calm and just relax. Her husband and brother are both physicians; they preferred that she does not do any work, or being writing. On other hands she wanted to write and work. She believed this was going to get her better and good faster than anything else. She did not like being in the room. She talks to her husband about wanting to go the other room downstairs. John says no and prefers she stays where she is. Throughout the story she describes this wallpaper that is really uncomfortable to her. Soon she describe in details which she states that she sees a woman tapped in it. That woman wants rip out of that wallpaper and run free. But for some reason it is hard. This wallpaper then starts to bother her more and everything about it gets annoying. This wallpaper symbolizes her. She is the women behind the paper who run free; it’s hard for her to break free because of her husband. You can see that John is a really important person in her life. She holds back a lot of her feelings for him. Al thought some are just too much and she does not realize that it is really hard to control them. At the end you can see when she runs out of the room, you see how her husband lays fainted in front of her; she cannot bear this. All that happiness and joy of freedom that she has is once again put aside for her husband.

2 comments:

  1. you're right about the relationship between teh narrator and her husband being an important one. Consider what each might represent? what type of world view, for eg? and how might the husband and wife be "stand-ins," or symbolic of a larger cultural conflict?

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  2. I believe that the narrator does represent the wife's inner feeling and thought, or even her known self conscious. The husband might represent the importance and the most lovable thing is her life. The husband and wife do stand in of a larger cultral conflict because they represent many couples that go through problems like this in reality. The sad is that people just dont know how to deal with it in stories or in reality.

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