Engl130 Team BLT(R): The Yellow Wallpaper Ending: I think I have finally understood the ending of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. At a first look, this story seem...
I really liked your interpretation of the ending - how the narrator and John seem to switch roles where she is the calm and collected one and he is the frantic one who is assuming the worst of the situation. I especially liked how you connected this to John not really knowing and understanding his own wife enough to know what she is like and what she would do or is capable of because he has given into this idea of women not being capable of managing their own lives and men needing to be completely involved with every aspect. Granted this is a married couple and they should be involved with each other, but not to the extent where one of them doesn't get to choose what happens. One thing I do wonder about your analysis is what makes you think that the narrator had "continuous failing attempts [...] to gain some control over her life" - I see where that comes from, but I kind of saw some of her actions as what she needed to do in the moment in order to get back to what she wanted to do.
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