The Yellow Wallpaper,.......

1.) I got sucked in from the first page of this reading, although I was confused through the entire story. I felt extremely sorry for the woman in the story as she had this sickness, and was told to sit there and do nothing all day by her husband . I didn't really relate to the reading, but I'm kind of thankful that i didn't. This story was easy for me to read because I didn't get bored with it, and I found myself just waiting to get to the end of the reading to see how this yellow wallpaper related to this woman. I still don't get the ending and why John fainted.(???)

2.) The narrator in this reading was very suppressed by her husband I think. He made her remain in this room, and kept her from doing things that she wanted to do. She couldn't even write. (Or maybe she was just schizophrenic and thought she couldn't do anything).The woman in the story must have spent an extremely long time in this room to give such detail about the room and the wallpaper, and she also takes much delight in looking out the window(in hopes of being outside I'm sure). She realizes that she is sick, but I don't think that she has come to the reality of the insanity that is settling within herself.Her husband keeps her in this room and says that her imagination is leading to bigger problems. The narrotor gets progressively worse psychologically, even though as the story pans out she continues to say that she is getting better. On page 119 she says "there is recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down," I knew that she's going crazy. For some reason she is OK with the splintered floor and the room that seems to have been through a war, but she just cannot get over this wallpaper. Paranoia also sets in on page 124 when she begins to catch her husband "looking at the wallpaper!" I could not figure out the significance of this yellow wall paper that reminded her of old foul bad yellow things and that had a peculiar odor. Also in the beginning and middle of the story the narrator says that she shouldn't say something but says it anyway, but then closer to the end she becomes less trusting and says that she "shan't be telling it this time." What was so important about this wall paper that she be the only person to touch it? I am guessing that the woman that she imagines within the wallpaper is a representation of herself, which is why in the end she talks about, "getting out" and not being put back. This constant sitting and starring and picking the pattern of this yellow wallpaper about eventually led to the complete insanity of this woman.