The three
stories from the reader this week all questioned the sanity/mental state and
imagination of their protagonists. I found myself closely noting the points
where we, the readers, evaluate their condition and how it drove the plot. I
thought it was interesting how in each story, I had to reevaluate and I often
came back to the idea that maybe the protagonist was the most sane person in
the story.
In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” it is evident from the beginning that the protagonist has an unstable mental state so we automatically see her as unreliable because even she believes it. As the story goes on, I often went back and forth on the idea despite of her growing obsession with the woman and the wallpaper. Her condition only got worse because of how she was always locked up in the bedroom and how her husband and the housekeeper persistently dismissed her every little complaint and thought. It seems like a comment on societal pressures and the idea of normality, in which society rejects any deviancy to stereotypes and associates it with being "crazy."
In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” it is evident from the beginning that the protagonist has an unstable mental state so we automatically see her as unreliable because even she believes it. As the story goes on, I often went back and forth on the idea despite of her growing obsession with the woman and the wallpaper. Her condition only got worse because of how she was always locked up in the bedroom and how her husband and the housekeeper persistently dismissed her every little complaint and thought. It seems like a comment on societal pressures and the idea of normality, in which society rejects any deviancy to stereotypes and associates it with being "crazy."
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