The story yellow wallpaper is one of the best stories I read the entire semester. We all know what happens within the ancestral hall all the frightening descriptions of the narrator. This story reminded me of a movie "Girl Interrupted" where women with mental disorder and the ones who were labeled to have mental disorder both were kept in the mental institution. I have a second thought about the the character of the husband if he really is the husband of the narrator. Lets say he is a husband and not the doctor acting her husband, then he is definitely letting his wife suffer the most as it seems like he does not listen to what she says. He is never around in the house with her. I think the author is trying to prove a point by putting the shadow of the woman behind the wall trapped. The message that we can take form this is that women have no say during that time and that is why she has to be stuck in the ugliest room without no one to talk to. It almost feels like the narrator is trying to tear herself out from herself and express herself. Which she did at the end and the death of John perhaps represents the failure of male dominance and womens freedom and liberation. Thats just my thought.
The story "Jury of her peers" is a classic story of female victimization. While female victimization was not that obvious in the Yellow wallpaper, in this story it is the main theme. They charged a women for murder of her husband a farmer who was found dead. The women have been shown to work together while the men seek for the evidence and motives to charge the women for the crime. It is very interesting to see how women would go against the norm and work their way towards independence. These two stories that we read is about women fighting against stereotypes and fighting for an independent life from their husbands or other men.
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