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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
Two great, suspenseful short stories and a bonus funny story that's not as suspenseful as it might suppose to be.
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
it still gives me the same creeps as five years ago (i hate men)
Read it twice in one afternoon and I felt much more *in* the story the second time. The word creep has never felt as creepy. A creepy that sticks with you.
There's something about the narrator having to sink into madness to let go of all of society's expectations and see her husband for the jailer he is. There's something about women who cannot bend to patriarchal demands and are immediately exiled from "the normal" and straight into "the sick". There's so many layers to every sentence !!
There's something about the narrator having to sink into madness to let go of all of society's expectations and see her husband for the jailer he is. There's something about women who cannot bend to patriarchal demands and are immediately exiled from "the normal" and straight into "the sick". There's so many layers to every sentence !!
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Such an interesting portrayal of post-partum depression/psychosis and the struggle of housewives in the 19th century
These themes became obvious to me the second she talked about her child and how she couldn't be with him because he made her nervous, and also how she accused her husband and Jane to try to put her inside the wallpaper at the end.
Fascinating to read her slow descent into madness and see her growing obsession/repulsion towards the wallpaper...
*Interesting to note that she starts seeing a woman in the pattern, that stays still and seems calm during the day, but moves or becomes more agitated at night, because the pattern doesn't look the same. Probably a parallel to her own condition.
*I like the use of punctuation (more specifically exclamation points) to show how "insane"/unstable/agitated she's becoming.
Also quite heartbreaking in a way to read her journal and witness her mental health getting worse without having help or support.
At the end, she believed *she* was the woman she saw in the wallpaper and started acting like it. Really sad.
These themes became obvious to me the second she talked about her child and how she couldn't be with him because he made her nervous, and also how she accused her husband and Jane to try to put her inside the wallpaper at the end.
Fascinating to read her slow descent into madness and see her growing obsession/repulsion towards the wallpaper...
*Interesting to note that she starts seeing a woman in the pattern, that stays still and seems calm during the day, but moves or becomes more agitated at night, because the pattern doesn't look the same. Probably a parallel to her own condition.
*I like the use of punctuation (more specifically exclamation points) to show how "insane"/unstable/agitated she's becoming.
Also quite heartbreaking in a way to read her journal and witness her mental health getting worse without having help or support.
At the end, she believed *she* was the woman she saw in the wallpaper and started acting like it. Really sad.
challenging
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Science, medicine, even secular ‘logical’ institutions and ideas can be steeped in biases; sexism, racism et al and that’s my main takeaway from this brilliant short story.
Also the lines “most women do not creep by daylight... it must be very humiliating to be caught creeping my daylight! I always lock the door when I creep by daylight.”
Also the lines “most women do not creep by daylight... it must be very humiliating to be caught creeping my daylight! I always lock the door when I creep by daylight.”
You know when something is objectively good but it fails to draw you in?
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes