wallpaper
This week in class we have been reading various short stories and my absolute favorite out of all of them has been “The Yellow Wallpaper”. The narrator goes completely insane and nobody believed anything was wrong with her. She was told it was just nerves and her case was not serious at all. But in the end of the story is seems as if there are so many reasons why the husband may have fainted and how the narrator got “out of the wallpaper”. The whole ending could be argued upon.
In my opinion I believe that in order for the narrator to get out of the wallpaper, she really wanted to get out of her own skin. She felt trapped in her own body so she peeled away at her skin. Therefore when her husband walked into the room he saw her and passed out. And to me that is the only ending that makes sense. To me I would not think her husband would have fainted if she just tore wallpaper off the wall.
The other controversial part of the ending is did she kill herself? There was a lot of foreshadowing her death and talk about hanging herself. As much as it would make since that the narrator hung herself and swung back and forth the only question is how would this story exists if she committed suicide? It was written in first person and was obviously about her but I think the story was just a fantasy of how she would die.