I find it ironic that in both “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “A Jury of Her Peers” the main character sees themself through something else. The narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” begins to identify herself with the woman in the wallpaper. In “A Jury of Her Peers,” Minnie Foster sees herself as a canary. Both of these stories are very symbolic. I didn’t really enjoy either of these and I didn’t like that these stories both themed around crazy women because it portrays women poorly. Although the idea of women’s rights hadn’t really been established yet so, I guess it makes sense for the writers to see things this way.
In the movie, Fight Club, the narrator begins to identify with the mysterious Tyler Durden. The narrator meets Tyler on a plan flight and soon after, his perfect little world starts falling apart. He had been going to support groups to help him sleep because they helped him to find his happy place but when he gets back (after meeting Tyler) this lady named Marla Singer starts attending ALL of his meetings. Once she starts appearing, he can’t go to his happy place because he knows that she knows that he is a phony. This movie is dark and keeps up the grotesque as Fight Club keeps the fights pretty gruesome. I found it hard to watch some of the fight scenes just because some of the guys would get beaten so badly.
I really liked how you connected the two short stories through the main characters and how they identified and were portrayed through something else. I think you have a good point with the stories being written before women's rights because it seems that in both women are seen in a negative light. But then I do have to say that I think in A Jury of Her Peers, it's almost as if the author is saying that we need women's rights because the women were able to solve the murder mystery, while the men's investigation found nothing conclusive.
ReplyDeleteI thought both these stories were interesting and particularly likes how there is a sense of confusion between what reality and imagination. Our imagination is very powerful and if not controlled can become overwhelming and lead to our shortcomings in life. I feel like so many people live their lives in an imaginary world, because only there do their feel understood and comfortable. Both in Fight Club and the Yellow wallpaper, the main characters became consumed by their imagination, which inevitably led them to mental institutes and ruined their lives.
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