Crazy Lady

The Yellow Wallpaper is about a woman who id diagnosed with depression by her husband/doctor.  And by depression I’m pretty sure they meant schizophrenia. This woman is absolutely nuts.  Her husband keeps her cooped up in her room because he thinks any sort of activity will make her condition worse.  So while she sits in her room all day she starts to write a journal to keep herself sane.  But she doesn’t want anyone to know about it so she keeps it hidden from her husband and his sister.  In her journal she describes the yellow wallpaper of the room “menacing” and is determined to find the pattern that lies within it.  Over time she starts to see a woman in the wallpaper, a woman that is trying to escape.  The woman in the wallpaper has made a pattern around the room where she has been looking for a way to get out.  At night the crazy lady says she can see the woman in the wallpaper shaking what looks to be bars, as if she’s imprisoned.  One night the crazy lady decides to try and free the woman by tearing down the wallpaper.  She succeeds in doing so, and releases not just one, but multiple women from the wallpaper.  Eventually she convinces herself that she herself came from the wallpaper.  One day the husband comes into the room and looks at his insane wife and what she had done and passes out in the floor.  I liked this story, it was pretty crazy.