&& That's a Wrap!

I truly enjoyed this class. If I could take it again I would definitely. I had been trying to read other text before coming into this class but didn't really know "how" to just "pick up a book" (smile). This class forced me read something besides African American Literature and I was very pleased.

Of all the text we read, I would have to say that, although Chopin's text Desiree's Baby was shocking, Gilman's text "The Yellow Wall-paper" was my favorite, including the ending. I enjoyed this text the most, simply because I could see so many "horror movie rules" that could have been gathered from this text, and, as you know, I love movies.

This was probably not intended by Gilman herself, but if I were a horror movie writer, I would look to this text for inspiration. And I truly do hope that the movie depiction of this story did the original text justice. Outside of the movie aspect of the text, I enjoyed reading this from a first person perspective. Even thought considered "insane", the narrator of Gilman's story is intriguing. She rights to engage the reader, even though she is only reading to herself. My favorite line of the text is, that in which she is describing the wall-paper:

"One of these sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin. It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide--plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions."

If you believe that the narrator kills herself at the end this can be a bit of foreshadowing. This story gets a complete "2 Thumbs Up" from me. All the way around.