Friday, January 28, 2011
The Yellow Wallpaper
I thought this story was one of the better stories we have read so far. I think the woman is in a mental facility because it says the windows are close and have bars on them, and the door has a gate in the hall. Because she is in a mental facility I think she feels excluded with nobody to talk to or that nobody will believe anything she says because they think she is insane. I believe this leads to her obsession about the yellow wallpaper in the room. I think she began to relate to the girl in the wallpaper. The woman in the wallpaper was trapped in the room, just she was so she felt she could relate. She wanted so bad to have a normal life with people to talk to so she began to go insane from the isolation. At this point she was just so deseperate that she started relating with the girl in the yellow wallpaper.
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Allison,
ReplyDeleteI'm curious. Do you think there was a girl in the yellow wallpaper, then, or was the whole thing just a fignment of the narrator's imagination? Perhaps there wasn't wallpaper at all, and what she was looking at was a room next to hers and the woman was another inmate at the mental facility (it's a crazy interpretation, but I think you could argue it). You can't deny the woman was important, but I'm curious as to just what you think she represents.
Becky