The Yellow Wallpaper

"The Yellow Wallpaper", by Charlotte Gilman, was a bizarre but interesting short story that through me to the wall. In the beginning of the story we were told that she is suffering from a nervous condition and feels unwell. Her husband John, who also is her doctor denies that anything is wrong with her but nonetheless she has to “have a schedule prescription for each hour in the day”, weird? Why are her husband and brother denying the fact that something is wrong with her? In my opinion, I think they just didn’t know how to deal with it and kept thinking that she will get better. Why to you think they were so in denial?

As the story progresses, she is more, and more fantasized about the yellow wallpaper in the bedroom. She hallucinates about the women in the wallpaper changing the designs on the wall at
night and also thinks the woman crawls away to fast to see her in the day time. This makes me believe that the woman on the wallpaper is a mirror image of herself for the fact that the woman is trapped, just like she is trapped, not able to do anything about her condition or her
life. This is a story that I hope I never get to relate too or experience!

Are married couples happy?

As I started reading the story, “ The Story of an Hour”, I had one thing in mind- this is going to be another tragic heartbreak story. Well, was I wrong. As I read on, things truly unveiled and a question popped up in my head. “Are married couples really happy?” . Well, lets twist things up. We know how Mrs. Mallard felt about the relationship but lets say hypothetically if the story continued would Mr. Mallard feel the blue’s or in reality would he have felt the same way as Mrs. Mallard did. We would never know, but nonetheless, I see, as an American, I feel I meet more and more people whose parents are divorced. Why are married couples not happy?

Mrs. Millard felt she had a fresh look in life and shows her new attitude of “out with the old and in with the new” within a matter of a hour. She prays for longer life to come but yesterday felt as life was long enough. She felt now she has a chance to be free. I feel Americans are quicker to dispose their spouses than fix things through.