Friday, October 1, 2010

The Yellow Wallpaper

This week I have began reading the Yellow Wallpaper and from what I think it is a good story. I like it because in a way it reminds me of the film Shutter Island due to that fact that both stories the main character is telling their story and you have no idea that they might even be insane because you are seeing everything in their eyes. When the story begins a family is moving into a colonial house that has been vacant for many years. And the Narrator begins to wonder why it has remained vacant for so many years due to the fact that it is a very beautiful house. She then thinks that the house may be haunted. When she is going through the house she discovers the attic and when she walks in there she sees a bed that is nailed to the floor, ugly yellow wallpaper, and bars covering the windows. Through out the story the wallpaper in that room begins to drive her insane or that what she says, another way to view it is that she was already an insane patient and she is locked in that room so she cannot do any harm to herself. She then becomes completely insane plotting escapes and creeping around her room with a rope tied to her and the bed. When it ends her husband or doctor if you view her being a patient, walks in and sees her actions and faints. Once this happens the Narrator keeps creeping in circles over him.

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