The Yellow Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper was my favorite story we have read so far. The narrator was very relatable because of her situation. She had an illness that no one really took seriously. Her husband, John, was a doctor that forced her to stay in a nursery all day long while he was away at work. He didn’t seem like a really good doctor to me. Staying in a locked up room daily for a very long time made the narrator crazy. I think that this would make anyone go crazy! She ended up relating to a made up lady that she discovered in her wallpaper. She looked as the wallpaper as a lady behind bars trying to escape just as she was. In the end she ripped the wallpaper off of the wall after her husband demanded her not to. In her eyes, the lady escaped and in a sense, so did she.

A Good Man is Hard to Find

A Good Man is Hard to Find was a really interesting story. I was interested from the beginning to the end. The grandmother was my favorite character because she was so filled with personality. She wasn’t like most grandmothers, who are boring and never wanted to do anything. She actually wanted to go out and do more than the family already was doing. The father in the story, Bailey, was the more conservative character. He never wanted to go out of the box and do more than he had to. He was against his mother on the account of them going down the road to see a house that was not even there. If he had been a little more strong-willed, the story would have gone in a totally different direction. Once he made the turn to go down this historical street nothing but trouble followed. The family came across an encounter with The Misfit which turned out lethal. The whole family was murdered all because of one turn. In the end I feel like The Misfit did have some type of psychological change after the talk with the grandmother, who was now dead. In my eyes, this story had a bittersweet ending.

The Chrysanthemums!

The Chrysanthemums was a really interesting story to me. I really like how detailed they were and how in depth they were with the personalities.  Elisa was my favorite character in the story because of how she began to feel. I am definitely on her side because she felt that women should not be put in a box. Being that this story was written in 1938 which is a totally different era from where we are now, she had to be really strong-minded to even think that. Her husband was trying to figure out her motive of why she was acting so strange but I felt that she did not even want to bring it up because she knew that he wouldn’t understand. I felt her pain.