SEVENTH JOURNAL

Jhorman Calderon
Foreign Languages
English VII
Martha Muñoz
Journal # 7

THE YELLOW WALL PAPER

When I was reading this story! I got bored because is so descriptive and there’s no interesting actions.
I think that this reading is an interesting one, but there must be something that we don’t understand at first sight. I mean the context throughout the story seems to be very strange, very complex and for that reason it was so difficult for me to understand it very well.
On the other hand, I consider that the attitude of the John and Jennie is very suspicious; sometimes I think that the woman was schizophrenia person; maybe she had a secret or affective problem. I don’t know!
Finally I want to refer myself to the relationship between them, I think that the man loved her, suffered by her condition, but he didn’t pay much attention to her, maybe because he knew that she was crazy or something like that.
In other words; I’d like to know why she got so obsessed by the room if at the beginning she hated the room and especially she got obsessive for the wall-paper. The only answer I found out is that she was sick or getting closely to death.
Interesting reading was this one but really strange or difficult to be understood.


05th May 2009
THE YELLOW WALL PAPER
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
UNKNOWN WORDS
- Gloomily: feeling of hopelessness.
- Fancy: (verb) imagine that something is so. Like or wish for.
- Stain: to leave a mark that is difficult to remove.
- Endure: to experience and bear something painful or unpleasant, esp. for a long time.
- Streak: mark.
- Sly: (on the sly) adjective: cunning or wily: sly as a fox. Stealthy, insidious, or secret. Playfully artful, mischievous, or
- Flounder: To move awkwardly, or to be in an awkward, difficult situation.
- Tangled: Messy mass of things.
- Moist: Slightly wet.
- Thaw: To cause something frozen to become warmer or liquid.

QUESTIONS FOR DICUSSION
7. What do you do if the person you love most star having a strange behavior?
8. What do you think about John’s behavior?

QUOTES
- Jennie looked at the wall in amazement, but I told her merrily that I did out of pure spite at the vicious thing” (400)
- “For outside you have to creep on the ground, and everything is green instead yellow” (401).
- But here I can creep smoothly on the floor, and my shoulder just fits in that long smooch around the wall, so I cannot lose my way” (401).
- She said I slept a good deal in the daytime. John knows I don’t sleep very well at night, for all I’m so quiet! (399)
- “Such a peculiar odor, too! I have spent hour in trying to analyze it, to find what it smelled like.” (398)
- “The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing.” (396)

OPINION
Personally I didn’t enjoy this reading, but I consider that there are important moments to be analyzed.