'The Yellow Wallpaper'

Yesterday for my English 1010 class I read 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and it demonstrates a woman's feelings as she is coping with depression that her husband (a physician) diagnosed her with. She is the narrator.The treatment he gives her is to keep her cooped up in a house, where their bedroom has multiple barred windows and the most revolting yellow wallpaper. It is peeling off the walls in a zig-zagged pattern. The woman keeps a journal during the daytime when her husband is away working with "more serious cases" but when he comes home, the woman hides any evidence that she writes because her husband says it makes emotional matters worse. After a couple months being cooped up in her room, the narrator begins to think she sees a woman trapped behind the zig-zagged pattern of the peeling wall paper. She soon says this woman is like herself, trapped, trapped in a barred house for "feeling depressed." Over time, the narrator writes entries more often, relieving any sort of worry she has.
One day she snaps. She locks herself in her room when she sees her sister-in-law coming to tend the house. She tears at the wall paper, trying to free the woman, freeing herself from the imprisonment of the wallpaper.

Like the woman in this story, we may find ourselves trapped in an unpleasant situation. Others may try to keep us from speaking our minds, like the woman's husband wouldn't allow her to write her thoughts.We cannot waste time though, like the woman. It took her three months before she finally broke out of what was expected of her. We cannot wait that long to tear at our own wallpaper.

As for me, I'm on the journey of self-discovery. I can see the hideous wallpaper in front of me, I just need to figure out how to tear at it. Writing in my journal has been helping me sort out my feelings, I just have to work on taking action on my thoughts.