Thursday, April 11, 2013
I found The Yellow Wallpaper to be the most interesting story we’ve read so far because it's such a strange and twisted tale about a woman suffering from a mental illness. The room she's in is especially not described as any ordinary room. It has nailed-down furniture, scratched floors, bars on the windows and the notorious torn yellow wallpaper. She thinks it was once a nursery and implies someone might have been kept there against their will. As she takes a special interest in the yellow wallpaper, I believe she begins to see herself within the wallpaper and by the end realizes that she is trapped and must “free” herself. She essentially loses control of reality to finally identify herself. The ending itself gave me a very disturbed feeling as she’s creeping around the room and even continues to after her husband faints, but she now refers him as “that man” and mentions Jane, someone who was not mentioned at all until this point. This story seems like a case that could be very much related to someone experiencing schizophrenia or post partum depression and the insanity that comes along with it. It's very relatable in the sense that many of us can feel trapped and suppressed by others, although not as extreme, but it gives us a sense of how it eventually lead to her ultimate breaking point and loss of self-control and reason.
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