Saturday, February 9, 2013
The Yellow Wallpaper
I wasn't sure if the story teller was mentally ill or suffering from post-partum depression. I think she saw herself locked in the wallpaper as she was locked in the room. Her husband, a doctor, only furthered her illness by his constantly denying his wife to express herself. I think the story teller contemplated suicide to break free from her vaction style prison. But in the end found releif in helping the lady in the wallpaper who represented herself. I think there may have been alot of feminist symbolism in this story, however the narration coming from the mind of a mad women made it very hard to read and to follow. I was left confused and in the end wondering if she possibly killed her husband. The work was very descriptive as I could see the wall paper in my minds eye.
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I found this story totally bisar. The woman saw people in the wallpaper, I felt, but she wasn't scared of them. I felt like she thought her husband had someone there continuously watching her, so she would not do anything he did not want her to do. She was definetly in a prison within her own home, but I think I would try to find my way out somehow. I am not one to stay confined to an area, I completely enjoy my freedom.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with the fact that her husband make her situation worse. He should have given her stuff to do to keep her mind busy instead of sitting and sleeping all the time. If I was him I would have let her write in her journal and then read it so I would know what is going on in her mind and help her fix the problems that she is seeing.
ReplyDeleteI thought that I was the only one kind of confused about “The Yellow Wallpaper”. I was trying to picture in my mind what was really wrong with the doctor’s wife and what was she getting at. But as I read more into the story, I was having mixed feelings about her I was so lost. I thought there had to be something really wrong with her other than what they were saying.
ReplyDelete"The Yellow Wallpaper" had me somewhat confused. I still don't really think I was able to grasp the whole concept of the story. I'm still not sure if she was just crazy and imagining things due to her illness or if these things were really happening. However, I do believe her husband could have been a lot more considerate to her situation than what he was.
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