The Yellow Wall Paper

When I first read the yellow wallpaper, it was last semester in an online class so we did not discuss it at all. Which I now see was heartbreaking. I did not get the full effect of the story. Everything that we talked about in this class, I did not get while reading it the first time. Such as her being in an insane asylum or who her "family" really was around her. Also the fact that her husband/doctor had died from seeing her go insane. So many events in the story are lost if one does not discuss it with others. While reading, a reader is lazy and will just hold the first impression that he or she comes across. Once a peace is discussed and different perspectives rise; it  shines a whole new light on the story.Seeing what others got from the reading was so much more interesting than the actual read. I simply thought that she was just a sick woman who was living in a vacation home, trying to get better from depression. But talking about in class really brought out so much more for the story. Talking about it made me and probably others appreciate it more.

Can we really pull the author into this story, and see that the main character is her? Or at least she knows somewhat of the feelings and images that the main character has. I believe so; I believe that she took an event in her past and made it more interesting. I mean if you really understand what is going on in the story it is really good. Seeing the objects around her and realizing how one could go insane by just being in an enclosed room with that wall paper. There is a personal connection that is made, one that brings this peace to become so interesting.