Although "The Yellow Wallpaper" was not the scariest of the stories we read so far, I thought it was more relatable than the other stories due the sense of the narrator given the circumstances. In "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart", it is hard to relate to the narrator and his crazy mind, as the murders don't have much, if any, logical justification, and the narrator is far more smug than any normal person would be whilst denying one's guilt to the police. I definitely wouldn't hit a wall behind which I hid a body if the police were there and hadn't even asked.

In "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Little Room", and "The Rats in the Walls", the stories (especially "The Rats in the Walls") are quite creepy, but since there's such a slim chance of them being true, it implies that each narrator must be quite far off the deep end for any of what is said to be trusted.

However, although the narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper" is crazy by the end, the cause of her psychosis is very real, and her actions are simply her attempts at staving off the complete loss of her mind. The fact that it's easiest to relate to her actions in such circumstances added an extra unnerving quality to the story that was less existent in the others.