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The story "The Yellow Wallpaper is written as a first person narrative and personally I really liked it. You really get a deep insight into how the main character of the story is feeling and you see everything from her point of view. It adds an intensity to the story but it is also unreliable because you only get to see the main characters point of view and you miss out on how everyone else in the story is feeling and the significance of their actions. But, for the sake of this story I feel that it was the best way to go. As the story moves along, the reader really gets to see and feel the character change because of the lack of contact with the outside world and how her loved ones, like her husband, isolate her until she really has nothing to do but imagine a life within the wallpaper that literally drives her to a point of insanity. Therefore it allows the reader to really get an understanding of how she felt and how those same feelings drove her to focus all her attention on the wallpaper due to the fact that she had nothing else to do. It brought me to the conclusion that it really didn't matter if you didn't get the insight into the other characters action and feelings because you can always assume what is going on with them.
I agree that it adds intensity and sure its also unrealiable but makes it so real while you are reading. I also liked reading this story and made it easier to read and understand because it was in 1st person. If the story would have been written by a 3rd person maybe then they wouldnt have know that the yellow wallpaper was the reason for her insanity!
ReplyDeleteI do agree that the first narration wasn't truly reliable. We only got her side of the story, not those around her. Also, by her opinions, we can't truly judge the real instances of her surroundings. Once thing I did like about the story is that we found a fond connection with her, but it was still a bit uneasy. The story was easy to read; very repetitive.
ReplyDeleteThat is a good observation that the point of view does add intensity as well as unreliability to the narrator. The story becomes very interesting, even though the basic story is just a woman going crazy as she is locked up in this prison of a room. I do agree that this was the best way to tell the story, because any other way, the narrator would have been too reliable and a concrete story based on non-concrete hallucinations would miss a large part of the story. The point of view itself tells part of the story, the underlying detail.
ReplyDeleteVery good writing style, this is perfect for writing essays. The in-text content was very good and I liked your opinion. Just add a few concrete details to the assignment and it will be a great essay.
ReplyDeleteI too really liked this short story. It was written excellently mainly because it was in first person. The story had a bigger impact on the reader because along with the narrator we too could feel she was going insane. If the story was told from John's point of view it would have been less dramatic and not as interesting. We could feel what the narrator was feeling throughout the story. Excellent post!
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