Response # 8

The yellow wallpaper was an interesting text. The story was filled with suspense and lots anxiety. The narrator wasn’t at peace and meanwhile her husband, John seemed to find her acting ‘normal’, she was alone thoughout her tribulations of fear and discomfort. She was either becoming dilusional when she mentioned her sister and law and husband were caught staring at this wall with amazement as if they’d be hypnotized by the wall. She felt like no one could understand the desesperation of leaving the room. She saw figures behind this wall and most-likely, because she was driven by fear and anxiety, she was hallucinating the whole thing in her mind. The narrator mentioned that her husband and her brother were both physicians, but they restricted her from writing or using her mental strenght because they feared that it would only do her bad than good. Atleast, the husband for sure restricted her. It was brought to my attention that he wouldn’t interract with her like a husband, but rather as a dad that would restrict her from doing anything she would want to do. Towards the end of the text, her husband fainted after encountering her removing the wallpaper and I guess he fainted because he couldn’t believe she would have done such thing even though she told him from the start that she couldn’t stand this hideous wallpaper.


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