Of the readings for this week, I found the "Yellow Wallpaper" and "The Haunting of Hill House" to be most interesting. I can understand why the narrator in the "Yellow Wallpaper" would become crazy. She is essentially kept confined in that one room so that she cannot have contact with other people. That would drive someone crazy. That wallpaper that she is so obsessed with and sees figures of women on it is symbolic of a prison. Just as that wallpaper imprisons the women as she starts to believe, the room she is in is her own prison too. And although this story has supernatural elements like the figures creeping on the wallpaper, it seems easier to come to a conclusion that the narrator was losing her grip with reality. In "The Haunting of Hill House", the opening lines of the story begin with the notion that no person or living organism can live in reality without becoming insane. These lines I think become more important when the characters meet each other in Hill House and start to introduce who they "are" when Luke brings up the fact that they don't really know each other. Eleanor introduces herself as an "artist's model", Luke as a "bullfighter", and Theodora as a "lord's daughter" and Dr. Montague as a "wanderer". We know already before this time as little about the characters so we know what they say is not true. They are being playful and "dreamy" especially Eleanor when she was traveling on the road to Hill House. But why must they play around this way with their identities? My guess would be related to the opening lines. They are probably doing so to hold onto their sanity although by this time nothing strange has happened in Hill House.