“The Yellow Wallpaper” & “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”

In the story “The Yellow Wallpaper” we follow the story of a woman losing her sanity day by day on this mansion she’s living with her husband and her sister in law. Her husband is a really good physician and so her brother and they always tell her that she’s not sick, while she thinks the opposite. so John her husband keeps the narrator on some prescribed drugs and they are not doing the narrator any help because it makes her feel weak when taking them and it seems like its not helping her “sickness”. This further drives her more and more insane while also being heavily controlled by John, always telling her everything would be fine. Also the narrator has a love hate relationship with the house she says its beautiful but hates the nursery room. It used to be a kids gym with barbed windows and equipment but the main thing she hated was that yellow wall paper she always talks about. That worn down paper is just making her go insane and she gets called crazy when the narrator talks about.

In the story “An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge” we follow the story of a man thats about to be executed. the story takes places in a railed road in north Alabama where the man is about to be executed. The story describes this man as a 35 year old man with good features. He was being executed for trying to sabotage and destroy the bridge.  But Peyton doesn’t have a dying wish just yet he thinks about his children and wife, once the rope broke he jumped into the river for his survival. the executioner missing his shots and then leading up to his own house where his wife is there.  But then we find out it was all in his head and dies being hanged on the Owl Creek Bridge.