The "Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman was one of a kind. The story consisted of essay entries written by a lady with a strange illness. Her Husband John, who was a physician, seemed to be a controlling person. She described him as someone who told her she that she wasn't capable of doing other than sitting around at home. It almost seemed that he was the type of person who knew something was wrong with his wife, but denied it, and also denied taking steps to help her get better. The lady spent a lot of her time at home, which her husband believed was the best place for her to rest in. With all that time on her hands the lady kept writing to ease her pain. More than once she mentions how she is confined to her house and how much she wishes to leave it and do somthing fun for a change. I think the message this essay is trying to convey is for people with any illness or disorder to not give up on their life,that there are other ways to manage life with such a problem. The lady stays in a room with old yellow wallpaper covering the walls.
She is really annoyed by it but soon after she becomes fascinated with the unique patterns and day by day she starts to believe that there is a woman trapped behind it and that she was the reason for making the patterns change the way they did.The lady also believed that the woman could see her and even watched her outside of her window. It was really really weird to find out that the "wallpaper woman" was actually the same sick woman we were introduced to in the beginning of the story. I honestly didn't think of that, at all.
That was interesting, but yet again very odd. For her the wallpaper was both a way to waste time and do somthing and also a huge annoyance. Even after reading it I really don't understand the symbols in this journal, anyone have a clue? Overall though, this made me think outside the box.
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Interesting post. I was fairly confused about the story until I sat back and gave it my own interpretation which made me be able to be clear about it. It was interesting. In the beginning it seemed as though she was a hypochondriac but as I read how controlling her husband was, it seemed to be one of those situations where he "makes" her believe she's sick even though he tells her nothing is wrong with her. She mentioned that as a child she had a wild imagination to help entertain her. It was obviously a talent she had been developing for a very long time...though the lady in the wallpaper was not entertainment, she was of interest to take the author's mind off of her nervous habits.
The story was confussing at first but when you really put your thinking skills to the test the story becomes very relivant. the message of the story is unclear until almost at the very end of the story. I disagree with you on how her husband was controlling. I think that her husband jus knew what was best for her and cared alot about her and wouldnt to take care and protect her. I believe that the narrator is such sick but it is all in her mind and she sick mentally and which limits her physical actions. The story is very od but at the same time very interesting.
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