The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is such an interesting story that it left me breathless in many parts. The narrator is a woman, (we can't be sure if her name is Jane), that suffers of depression and doctors say she also might have hysterical tendency, one of the reasons why her husband John forbids her to express herself and her feelings. 

Everyone thinks she is crazy and that she has problems.In the begging of the story, when she is hiding her journal, she describes the house and the things around, but the things she focus more on are her room, that used to be a nursery, and the "horrible wall-paper" on the wall; she doesn't like the wall-paper but nor her husband or Jennie (her sister in law and caretaker) will do something about it. 

As the time goes on in the story, the wall-paper start to take a different shape every time for the narrator. She sees it as a mistery and she doesn´t want anyone to see it, because she wants to find it out alone. Her husband believes that she is recovering, but every day that passes, she feels weak and tires. 

One day she sees in the yellow wall-paper the shape of a woman behind some bars. And suddenly that shape begins to move all around the paper, but during the night the woman looks as if she wants to scape and break the bars. When the writer is alone at home, she decides to free that woman from the bars by tearing off the wall paper, biting it... destroying it... When her husband comes in he just faints...

I believe that the woman in the wall-paper was her inside the nursery, behind those 4 walls and the window... trying to look for freedom; the freedom that her own husband took away from her. The woman she was seeing, was the reflect of her because she didn't found a way to express how she was feeling in that room. In the end the treatment her husband thought that was going to succeed, ended up in insanity. 

Kate Chopin "The Storm"

Today's literature class, we read the storm by Kate Chopin, and I have to say that I really liked it. This short story has a lot of irony and talks about the pursue of happiness but for women in the XIX century, a right that women didn't had in those times. 
Calixta is married to Bobinot, and the have a son, Bibi. They are from a lower class. Alcée is married, and has children too, also we know that he is from an upper class. Calixta and Alcée have an affair, but no one notice it. 
The story ends up with an intresting sentence... "So the storm passed and everyone was happy." And this is when my mind goes into and ethical conflict. Do everyone is really happy? I mean, Calixta and Alcée had what they wanted, and there was no consecuence for their passion or love; and there is no real conflict in the story but in the reader's mind, how can everyone be happy when we know that Calixta and Alcée had cheated on their families? This is a really good dramatic irony.
The story was pretty intresting, and I really enjoyed it. 

Don't think about the negative things, think about what you learn of each experience :)