1) “Life is very much more exciting now than it used to be. You see I have something more to expect, to look forward to, to watch. I really do eat better, and am more quiet than I was”
Title: The Yellow Wallpaper
Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Explain: Here, the narrator is talking about the impact the yellow wallpaper has on her. She explains that she has something to be excited for again and its affecting her life positively. This connects to the larger issue of her post-pardon psychosis as she is imagining the yellow wallpaper to be something much more than it is.
2) “I have all of your letters here. I look at them everyday. I have one that looks as though it’s weeping, because the words fade away into nothing, and another that looks as if it’s been through a hard day, because there’s a smudge of dirt at each corner, and it smells of kerosene and burnt sugar. But I can’t tell you what they say, because I don’t read. I can’t tell whether there are any truths, but I keep them, ‘cause George gives me his heart, though it covered in mud and filthy, but he gives it to me in one of these letters. And I believed him. I believed him!
Title: Intimate Apparel
Author: Lynn Nottage
Explain: Here, Esther is talking about the physical appearance of the letters. She compares the way the letters look to the experiences of a human, crying or being tired after a long say. She gives them personification because she cannot read, so she implies from their appearance. She is upset because although she cannot read the letters, she knew that George said he gave her his heart in these letters. Therefore she cannot understand the cheating ways of his actions now.
The first one I thought was fairly easy. The expiation was very interesting as well! The second quote was much more harder for me. I don’t know why because “intimate Apperal ” was probably the only story we have read that concerned letters. After reading your explation the quite made much more sense! Over all great post and great quote choices !