The function of telenovela plays a big role throughout the story. In the story we are introduce to a woman named Cleofilas who is from Mexico. Cleofilas has been growing up watching telenovelas her whole life while she was living with her parents. Coming from a Spanish home as well I can totally relate to this, I have been growing up watching these types of show as well is very interesting that Cleofilas wants to live her life like a novella because I feel many people will love too , but that’s something that its unrealistic. Watching these shows has caused her to fantasize of living a similar life as the actors.  She wants to dress and do her makeup like the actors she sees in the show. Cleofilas wishes to get marry and live with her husband forever. After she gets married with Juan and moves away from her parents she realized that her dream of having a perfect romantic life is actually the opposite. Her husband is abusive and mistreats her dealing with something that she is not used to gives Cleofilas a hard time to cope with the situation. She always told herself that she will not deal with domestic violence when she saw it occurring in the telenovelas, but when she actually experienced it herself she contradicted herself. In the story it states “ Cleofilas thought her life would have to be like that, like a telenovela, only now the episodes got sadder and sadder” She realizes that something love is not as great as its shown in the telenovelas. I think she used these shows to escape from her true reality after she married Juan it was a way that still gave her hope of true love and that made her feel a little bit better. At the end she finally was brave to leave her husband and return to her family a place that she probably wishes had never left.
The Story centers around two girls of two different ethnicities one is black and the other is white but the text never really specifies witch is witch, in fact the Morrison outright confuses the reader into changing there answer constantly forcing the reader reconsider what we thought we knew about the characters. Roberta was the white person for throughout the text we see that she was far better of than Twyla ever was many times when Roberta encountered Twyla outside the orphanage there were emphasis on the fact that she ha a driver or that the first time they met she was bragging about how she was going to a jimmy Hendrix concert. Later in their life they meat again and discus their life’s it is there that the readers find out that Roberta is married to an ibm and executive a position that I doubt a black man could hold.
The importance of telenovelas in the story is that since Cleofilas grow up with out a female role model in her life so she learned all of what a woman is supposed to be from soap operas. This gives her un exaggerated and idealized view of both life and love, and intern believes that life has to be filled with passion, to the point of being delusional “one does whatever one can, must do, at whatever the cost.” she implies as if there is a sweetness of suffering for love. This however Is far from here reality as her husband has taken to beating her despite the fact that she emulates all that she saw in the telenovelas for being a good wife.
Choose three quotations from thenYellow Wallpaper that convince you that the protagonist is an unreliable narrator and explain why for each.
The Narrator is a young, upper middle class woman, who is newly married and a mother, who is suffering from depression. The narrator whose name may or may not be Jane is highly imaginative and a natural storyteller, though her doctors believe she has a “slight hysterical tendency.” The story is told in the form of her secret diary, in which she records her thoughts as her obsession with the wallpaper grows. which could be that maybe not everything  was a fancy and she’s an unreliable narrator.
” Sometimes I think it’s a great many women behind , and sometimes only one , and she crawls around fast and her crawling shakes it all over ”
The protagonist can not make up her mind whether there is one woman in the wallpaper or many. I don’t believe she is depicting herself to be in the right state of mind because it is conflicting to speak about walk paper and to suggest that a woman on the wall paper is crawling to make it shake. Maybe this woman, or these women were only in her imagination. The protagonist is proving to be an unreliable narrator here because she is unable to convince you of one thought without considering another.
” John is a physician( and perhaps I would not say this to a living soul of course, but this dead paper and a great relief to my mind.)Perhaps that is one reason I don’t get well faster”
I feel that the protagonist is unreliable in this statement because it is not clear her husband is or not a real physician. Though she never actually completed her thought she always  contradicts herself several times. The narrator who is telling this story about herself states that shel was talking to dead paper when in reality she was talking to herself because the paper was never alive.
this is final scene, just before John finally breaks into her room, the narrator has finished tearing off enough of the wallpaper that the woman she saw inside is now free and the two women have become one.The woman behind the pattern was an image of herself she has been the one “stooping and creeping.”
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