The Yellow Wallpaper

So I am writing this week’s blog after only one day of class, but I feel that I might not have time later in the week. On Monday we were read “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. There are so many different things that can be seen in this story. We are unsure if the woman is going crazy due to her confinement or if she was crazy to start with and the room that she is stuck in is a mental institution. It can be seen both ways. The man who comes and watches over her could be her husband who is a doctor or it could just be her doctor and she lets her imagination run far enough to think that they are married. She thinks that there is a women stuck in the wallpaper so she makes it her duty to help the women escape. She thinks that she see the women during the day, she is outside sneaking around. However, I feel that it is just her reflection in the windows that she sees. When she spins around to try and see the women all at once it gives her the impression that the women is running around outside. It is almost near imposable to believe everything that the woman writes in her journal, as we learned in class. This short story just seems to have crazy women written all over it no matter how you see it. But if the doctor really is her husband and he does keep her isolated from everyone I would understand why she is going crazy. I don’t think that anyone can stay locked up and in isolation for that long without going mentally insane.