The Yellow Wall-Paper
I have read many strange books in my life, but “The Yellow Wall-Paper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman may be the strangest one yet. When it started out saying that she believed that she was sick but her husband and brother both told her that she was not sick but she only had temporary nervous depression. But the more I read the more I began to believe that in the beginning of the story there was nothing wrong with her at all. She was fine to start the story but the longer they made her stay in that room, where there was nothing for her to look at but the yellow wallpaper, the crazier she got as she began to obsess about it. She even began to say how there were all of these smear marks all over the walls and that if you touched the wall it would easily come up. This shows how crazy she had become as she was the one who was smearing up the walls. This is a far cry from the beginning when she started writing. She said in the beginning that they thought that she should stay in that room and that she should not do anything at all, including write. She believed that writing and getting outside could do her well and that it was maybe just what she needed. As it turns out they could not have been more wrong as staying in that room with the yellow wallpaper that she kept obsessing over made her more and more insane as the story progressed. She also describes the smell of the wallpaper as “yellow” as she became more and more crazy locked up in the room. She tells her brother that she is losing her mind in this room. Instead of sympathizing with her or even disagreeing and saying that she is lying he says that she should not speak of it again. The end of the story to me is easily the oddest part. When he gets into the room she is walking around in circles touching the walls. He asks her what she is doing and she states that she has ripped off most of the wallpaper so they cannot put her back, almost as if the yellow wallpaper was keeping...