Make sure your response meets the criteria stated in the instructions, Reader Response: How it Works, before you post to this assignment. I would encourage the use of quotes to focus your writing.
Be prepared for a vocabulary quiz on the glossed vocabulary from this story on Tuesday the 22nd.
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Ok, so, i honestly read the whole stprie, but i have no single clue what it is about. I mean i understood that this woman is talking the whole time about this yellow wallpaper, but why? There is nothing special with a walpaper, and even if she sees thodse women behind the wallpaper it's not that interesting at all. THis story really confuesed me. Is this woman paranoid or just her sickness, whatever that is. In some parts i thought maybe she is handycapped, because it seems that she can't stand or walk, because her husband has to take her to her room. And are they selling the house or what are they doing. It was really hard for me to read it, and think i really didn't get the main thought of the story.
I am glad that you are staying on top of the reading Alena. I understand your feelings of confusion. However, you already picked up on the most important part of the story without even realizing it. You asked, is this woman paranoid or sick? That is the question Giman wanted us to ask. Next time, I recommend finding a quote or two that supports either interpretation and then offering your own reading. Otherwise, nice post.
i read the whole story but i did not understand any of it. maybe because i fully read the beginning and fell asleep on the ending. yes, it was boring because i did not understand the main idea or the point of the story. the only thing i knew was that it was a crazy lady talking about the yellow wallpaper. but what is so significant about it.
O.k I can only say that this story is to also boring. The only thing I can say is that really it was about this "sick" lady who continued tocomplain about the yellow wallpaper. Why would she only complain about this wallpaper, like she needs to be worrying about her health. She said that, John would fix up the room, butshe needs to get well. So maybe this wallpaper is the only thing she can focus on since she can't do other things, like write which is one of her favorites. But to my understanding I think she just want something to make her feel a little beter and that ugly wallpaper is not doing it.
I read the story i didnt understand it fully. it was really didnt get the main part.I didnt like this. To me there wasnt really anything special about the wallpaper but that it was yellow i think.
"The Yellow Wallpaper" is the perfect choice for the titel of the story, althought there could be more possibilities. But anyway, this reminds me of Emily Dickinson's life and poetry. Sure, she lived alone and almost isolated, but the main figure in this story is in similar situation: her husband doesn't want her to visit her relatives, she cannot go outside, and the only thing she has got to think about is the wallpaper, which is, by the way, irritating to her.
Also her husband wants to fix up the room, but honestly, is it like that? "At first he meant to repaper the room, but afterwards he said that I was letting it get the better of me, and that nothing was worse for a nervous patient than to give way to such fancies" p.769. So he wants the best for her, but when she asked him to repaper the room or to take her away from there, because she doesn't feel well in this room and without him, he just says that it is going to do her better... So did I misunderstand the story, or John just thinks that his wife doesn't know what she wants, and that's why he doesn't take her seriously!
This story was a perfect choice to read. I liked it even though i didnt get some of the parts. If i am not mistaking the narrator seen herself as the trapped woman trying to get ou tof the wallpaper. As if she is trying to get out of the relationship with her controlling husband. Thats what i got out from reading this story but when i watched the video you posted it seems she is imaging that her husband is going to kill her. Maybe if we talk iabout in class i would see if i was getting the right message.
"I don't like to look out of the windows even-there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast. I wonder if they all come out of that wall-paper as I did?"
I think this quote is important because it finally shows that the women behind the wall-paper came out and finally met with the creeping women. The question she is asking is if the other women had to suffer like she did just to get out of the wall-paper.
I think the story was O.K.! I really didn't get it at first because I didn't know if she was crazy or really sick..idk! But when I got to the end of the story..I understood it a little better and saw why she didn't like the yellow wallpaper. Overall, I liked the story.
it reminded me of that movie, "Girl Interupted" just because it had to do with a sick/ paranoid girl, even though the girl in the movie ultimately got better, they both had the same feel and tone. that there was a chauvanistic reason behind most of the actions the authority, whether it was orderly in an asylum, or a "loving" husband, they both served the same purpose.
-Doug
I think there are a lot of things to learn about point of view from this story. For example, the narrator says that the room with the yellow wallpaper was a nursery, but if you look closer, the line actually reads that she judges the room was once a nursery. Based on her description, the room seems more like an asylum, which is really spooky when you consider the physical appearance of the room: the metal bars, the steel rings, etc.
Remember, first person narrators can be tricky, especially when their mental health is in question. Look for other details in the story that require your interpretation and see if you can determine whether the narrator was always insane or driven to insanity.
Let me start off by saying that the lady in this story is crazy.Ins't she really sick so why does she keep worrying about that studip wallpaper.I mean does it distract her?!?! Maybe thats why she sick because she hates the color YELLOW!!!!! I just dont no.
"The Yellow Wallpaper", was a very interesting story. I found myself wondering if Charlotte was really sick. Or was her husband John just telling her that. I believe John just want Charlotte under his control. And he gave her all these tonics so that he could keep her under his control. But sometimes I did wonder if he was really crazy. But all in all it was a good story. I actually like it.
After reading and discussing it in class today, I came to the same conclusion as Alena. I know that it is supposed to be left up to our interpretation as to whether or not she is paranoid or crazy, but I do think that after awhile she just became paranoid. Many people who are stuck in the same place for a long period of time tends to become paranoid. This especially tends to happen to people who are sane and who's freedom has been taken away. I also was somewhat confused about the rest of the story but that in itself did seem to be clear to me.
This story was very dark and cold hearted. Basically, she was crazy. She started saying that the walls were coming to her, but really it was her who was pealing the wallpaper, from what I think. At the end, i couldnt tell whether her husband died or just fainted, but this whole story was by far weird.
I dont get this story at all. All the lady talks about is the yellow wall paper if she was so botherd by it why didnt she just tell her husband(who imprisoned her) to take it down. Dont drive you and me crazy.
I JUST NEED TO GET SOMETHING STRAIGHT, BECAUSE THE NARRATOR IS ONE WHO IS IN DEPRESSION/SICKNESS RIGHT? I THINK THE HUSBAND IS THE CRAZY ONE BECAUSE WHO WOULD WANT TO TAKE SOMEBODY TO THE COUNTRY WITH A HOUSE WITH YELLOW WALLPAPER?, THATS JUST MY OPINION. I STILL NEED TO TALK WITH OTHERS OR TO MR. ALARCON TO CLARIFY THIS STORY EVEN MORE.
-PIKACHU
I don’t think that she is crazy at all. I just think that she is a very imaginative someone who has been shut up in a dull environment. I think that her strong, complex, elaborate and uncontrollable imagination made all these things seem real. She even gave an example of how that happened when she was a kid. She is just a very imaginative person who has been shut up in a dull prolonged situation. Because of this her imagination is simply running wild. Oh, and I also believe that her supposed sickness was nothing more than deep depression.
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