Quote:
“I am getting angry enough to do something desperate. To jump out of the window would be admirable exercise, but the bars are too strong even to try. Besides I wouldn’t do it. Of course not. I know well enough that a step like that is improper and might be misconstrued” (Perkins 818)
Summary:
This is almost the end of the story in The Yellow Wall-Paper, the main character is spending the last day in the mental institution. She has locked herself in the room and she is almost done ripping off all the yellow wall paper.
Response:
This is where I started to think that the main character is actually really crazy herself. Before, I had tried to understand why she wanted to free the woman behind the bars, why she was going delusional about the pattern in the wall paper. But to this point, I see her concepts of what is acceptable and what is not are kind of twisted. Before, thinking about jumping from the window, she had been ripping off the yellow wall-paper, and she had been seeing the creeping woman out of the room and behind the wall-paper. But here, she says that even if she could jump out of the window, she wouldn’t do it, because doing that would be “improper and might be misconstrued”. That means that everything she has done before is proper, but jumping down the window would be misunderstood by people, which means they might really think she is crazy.
Even if she locked herself in her room, even if she sees these creeping women, and she creeps herself, all this is not improper for her, but jumping off the window would be really bad. Nevertheless, leaving aside this fact, I also think that by jumping out of the window she is thinking about freeing herself, because even though she is already out of the wall-paper, she is still in the room, behind the bars. Therefore, she is also thinking about committing suicide to escape from everything, or maybe she just wants to get out of there. The problem is she is also scared of the creeping women outside the window, she is basically trapped in the room, and I think this is why she is going crazy. Being trapped in the room shows how useless her efforts to be free are. And she doesn’t have the strength nor is she able to do a desperate act.
“I am getting angry enough to do something desperate. To jump out of the window would be admirable exercise, but the bars are too strong even to try. Besides I wouldn’t do it. Of course not. I know well enough that a step like that is improper and might be misconstrued” (Perkins 818)
Summary:
This is almost the end of the story in The Yellow Wall-Paper, the main character is spending the last day in the mental institution. She has locked herself in the room and she is almost done ripping off all the yellow wall paper.
Response:
This is where I started to think that the main character is actually really crazy herself. Before, I had tried to understand why she wanted to free the woman behind the bars, why she was going delusional about the pattern in the wall paper. But to this point, I see her concepts of what is acceptable and what is not are kind of twisted. Before, thinking about jumping from the window, she had been ripping off the yellow wall-paper, and she had been seeing the creeping woman out of the room and behind the wall-paper. But here, she says that even if she could jump out of the window, she wouldn’t do it, because doing that would be “improper and might be misconstrued”. That means that everything she has done before is proper, but jumping down the window would be misunderstood by people, which means they might really think she is crazy.
Even if she locked herself in her room, even if she sees these creeping women, and she creeps herself, all this is not improper for her, but jumping off the window would be really bad. Nevertheless, leaving aside this fact, I also think that by jumping out of the window she is thinking about freeing herself, because even though she is already out of the wall-paper, she is still in the room, behind the bars. Therefore, she is also thinking about committing suicide to escape from everything, or maybe she just wants to get out of there. The problem is she is also scared of the creeping women outside the window, she is basically trapped in the room, and I think this is why she is going crazy. Being trapped in the room shows how useless her efforts to be free are. And she doesn’t have the strength nor is she able to do a desperate act.
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