Blog No. 3, Mar. 7th

Part 1:

Both of the assigned readings for Thursday were both quite strange but at the same time I liked them. For example, "The Yellow Wallpaper" confused me quite a bit at first when I sat down and read it. But after re-reading it, I was better able to figure out what the main driving point of it was. It actually connected somewhat to my life, as currently I'm suffering from an illness. The narrator of this story starts by having a more normal illness, affecting physical health but as the story progresses this illness gets better but a new one is made... a mental illness. A & P was definitely a weird but humorous short story that made me laugh, especially near the end. A & P helps show the point that we humans don't exactly think straight, especially when it comes to the opposite sex. As these three girls in swimsuits came into the A & P, the narrator's boss tells them that the girls are inappropriately dressed. Just that alone caused some sort of strange thought to enter the narrator's head, and quit his job just because of what his boss said. After he left the A & P, the narrator couldn't even find those girls anymore. Which means he just quit for nothing. While it does sound stupid, it ties into the tradition that people do stupid things when dealing with the opposite sex.

Part 2:
For this part of the blog assignment, the narrator in "The Yellow Wallpaper" will be discussed. As stated in the first part of the blog, the narrator apparently starts out in this story very sick, physically anyways. Not being able to move around much in the place where her friend John has temporarily decided to stay, she begins to notice some very strange things. Mostly, this is because of the hideous wallpaper that exists in the room where she is held. At first, she really just doesn't like the wallpaper, and that seems to be a rather sane opinion. However, as her physical illness begins to heal, she begins to adapt a mental illness, as is shown when she believes that the designs of the wallpaper are actually moving. She reveals her extreme dislike towards the wallpaper near the end of the story by going completely insane and she just starts tearing it up. The transition from having a physical illness to going completely insane due to wallpaper is the transformation that the narrator is going through throughout the course of the story.