The Novel

10/28/14

wanyi Li

The Novel

‘There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down. I get positively angry with the impertinence of it and the everlastingness. Up and down and sideways they crawl, and those absurd, unblinking eyes are everywhere. There is one place where two breaths didn't match, and the eyes go all up and down the line, one a little higher than the other.” (649-650)

In this passage from “The yellow wall-paper” by Charlotte Perkins Stetson, the author began to start showing what happened in the yellow wall-paper. At this moment, the woman started to find some different in this yellow wall-paper. She became nervous and afraid. This moment is an important turning point in the story: the point at what she fancied. She found a big secret in this yellow wall-paper, it guided her to find the truth, but it just makes her neurotic, and puts a huge pressure on her brain and body. Her illness became more serious than before. In addition, the topic called “The yellow wall-paper”, it means that it must get some different or mysterious things in this yellow wall-paper. Because of this is a horrible story, the author described the horrible things by the woman. It’s not only the important point, it’s also the horrible story begins.

In this passage: ‘There is a recurrent spot where the. Pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down.’ The woman fancies the spot which on the yellow wall-paper like a person’s eyes. It’s the base on the next passage that the woman fancies a woman who lived in the yellow wall-paper. And the author used some horrible and mysterious words like ‘broken neck’ and ‘stare at you ’, these details were show that the yellow wall-paper was really bad and the pattern was disturbingly, all the things what on the yellow wall-paper makes the woman gets angry and nervous. This woman needs peaceful place to treat but her strong imaginative power lets her become crazy. Later in this passage: ‘Up and down and sideways they crawl, and those absurd, unblinking eyes are everywhere’. It means the yellow wall-paper put a serious mental stress on the woman just like what her said ‘. I get positively angry with the impertinence of it and the everlastingness’. She can’t avoid to stop fancy some horrible things. She becomes neurotic. And this paragraph has a lot of tiny details like ‘the eyes go all up and down the line, one a little higher than the other.’ It’s very lively and easy to let the readers know what the picture shows in theirs mind and let them know what the woman think. And it makes the story more authentic.  

The key word in this passage is ‘start at’. It’s very lively action. If something that not a person but like a people’s eyes and look at you day and night, it will really horrible and nervous. It means you can’t do anything because you are being watched.  

In my opinion, there are some arguments in this passage: Why just the woman thinks the spot what on the yellow wall-paper like a person’s eyes and the line like a broken neck? Did she have some horrible experience? All these questions attract me to read more. And I also interested in what the woman fancied.