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I would love to make this sound formal, but I'm afraid I can't due to shock and horror of this short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Oh.My.God.
The Yellow Wallpaper...is the creepiest thing I have read in a while...
I will have nightmares about going pyscho and thinking I'm some lady in my wall. My god I thought she was going to hang herself with the rope! ...or did she? Could "securely fastened now by [crazy lady's] well hidden rope" (327) mean she has already tied the noose around herself? Some crazy suicide mentality? It does say at one point "[Crazylady has] got a rope up [in the nursery]" (326) and goes on to say that she tries to move the bed and then she two "[gets] so angry [crazylady bites] off a little piece at one corner" (327). She becomes obsessed with the pattern that she describes as it "lolls like a broken neck" (319) with two "bulbous eyes" (319) staring at you. Does that not give you a disturbing though? She then begins to talk about ripping off the wallpaper, my mind instantly shifts back to the opening credits of "The Orphanage" where the hands of the children pull off all the wallpaper for each name that goes by.
I mean, what was Gilman thinking when she wrote this short story? I must say that while it does scare me...quite a bit... it is well written and it shows the slow transformation of someone going insane and having her mind twisted and contorted.
I do have much more to say, but my thoughts are scrambled, as shown above, but this is my initial response to the story which I think is good to have, even if mine is a bit extreme at the least. Post your input about the story.