One of the readings for this
week was “The Yellow Wallpaper”, it is hard for me to understand that someone
could write so much about the yellow wallpaper. If I did not read the
background of the story I would have been completely lost. Stating that the
author, Charlotee Perkins Gilman, had a mental disorder helped me understand it
a little bit more. I felt sorry for the writer because no one would tell her
that she was really sick just that she had a case of “nervous depression”. I
honestly cannot fathom how she spent her days and nights thinking and staring
at this yellow wallpaper. It amazes me that someone with a mental disorder can
make something out of nothing.
At one point in everyone’s life
there has come a point where they have made something out of nothing or obsessed
about something. When we were little, we would hear a noise and automatically
think that there is a monster under our bed. Even now in college, people obsess
over papers, tests and people's opinions. Everyone wants to have a certain control over their life
and may overthink things too much; maybe not on the degree that the writer did
but aren’t we all a little crazy and obsessive inside?
