1. When it came to reading the Yellow Wallpaper and as the story progressed my attitude toward the narrator changed just a little bit but kept me very intrigued only because I was able to understand the story in a different perspective. When I mean a different perspective I mean looking at the story from the narrator delusional mind. When the story started out the narrator seemed almost somewhat normal who had people in the house to help her take care of her child. As the story progressed I felt the narrator had too much time to think and get lost in her mind. By the middle of the story I notice she started to lose it with some of the statement that she observed. In the middle of the story she looked at the wallpaper if it had a story behind it. By the end of the story the narrator believed she was trapped behind the wallpaper.
2. I thought the narrator was very reliable, I thought she could have had some physiological issues in the past or maybe just broke down recently after having the baby. But as you read on what as she is writing in her journal I actually believe that she sees these things that are hiding in the wallpaper. As the story goes on you can tell she accept these images behind the wallpaper as true. In my opinion when she states that the people in the wallpaper are behind some bars I’m think she is talking about the shadow from the bars on the window coming in from the light of the moon. When someone is suffering from an illness like that it is hard not to believe them only if we were as delusional as her that is why I trust her statements and conclusion.
3. I think the narrator is emotionally unbalanced especially the time this story was written. According to her husband John who was a physician thought the best thing for her was to get a lot of rest. He also brings in his sister to take care of the baby and for her not to write was their belief in that time on how to cure her illness. Her deterioration began after she had her baby, maybe something to do with postpartum depression. As the story went on you can tell that her mental state got worse. She began to get obsessed in finding a pattern in the wallpaper because she began to see a woman in the pattern of the wallpaper and she shakes the patterns at night time and she is out of the patterns during the day because she sees the women outside her window creeping around the garden and the grape arbors. She felt that she needed to help release the women behind the pattern by taking off all the wallpaper.
4. After reading this story I don’t see anything that relates to Gilman suggesting anything about marriages at the turn of the nineteenth century nor does Gilman imply anything about the status of women. The only thing I could take from this story is that in that time of period women didn’t really have a mind of their own and when I say that I mean women were told to do something and they did it with no questions asked.
5. When comparing the narrator need to write to Sonny’s need to play music is that both had a urge to keep their mind occupied. The narrator felt that she needed to write to keep herself from going insane in being locked up in the house being constantly monitored. As for Sonny
