Oct. 21, 2014

                The Yellow Wallpaper

    The narrators husband, thinks she’s losing her mind, he thinks she has too big of an imagination. I think he thinks he’s opinion should be valued more than hers or he’s smarter or saner than she is. He has her think that she is sick, because when she tries to talk to him about the house he always brushes it off, and that causes her to get angry with him. Anything that john tells her, she often believes, because he is physician and the way he talks down to her makes her think she might actually be going crazy or “hysterical” as he would call it. Also the fact that he takes care of her, she feels she owes him or that she’s being ungrateful.

   

He has this image of how his wife should be, and that puts so much pressure on her its apart of why she is so sensitive. John feels if there is no reason for something it shouldn't matter, for example when the narrator mentioned “john does not know how much I suffer, he knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him”. Unlike the narrator, john doesn't like to confront his problems, if the problem does not concern him or there was no reason for it anyway, he just doesn't deal with it. He makes her feel like she’s a burden and takes her as a joke. He think she just complains about everything, her husband constantly telling her how she should and shouldn't be might have lead her to depression. However I do not think this is a ghost story at all. I think this is a story about a really unhappy woman and the house and the wallpaper, especially the wallpaper just reminds her of all the unhappiness she is feeling.