Monday, May 12, 2008

Happy Endings

This particular set of stories were very interesting. I believe that each ending had a significance to it but i could not quite catch on to what they were. I did however enjoy each ending. I think that it was kind of funny how each character begin to come together as each ending came together.
Happy Endings had a lot of truth to it. It's a perfect way to explain or write about how some relationships just don't work. I think that this story was dynamic and also funny at some points. This particular story kind of reminds me of Romeo and Juliet and how they fall in love and were willing to die because the other was no longer living. I think that each "happy ending" was rather peculiar in some ways because in each one there was one person who was madly in love and the other was not. I would recommend this story to someone else to give them something to think about.

The Yellow Wall Paper















Wall paper, what can I say, it was an unusual story. At some points in the story, I thought it was quite funny. I believe that the main character pretty much lost her mind. In the beginning she attempts to write in a journal to relieve her mind. She was writing down her thoughts and how she felt about her house. Reading about this was weird at first but then it began to make sense. I believe that writing in her journal was a way for her to escape her unhappiness and it was stress therapy for her.

As I read on in the story, it became quiet scary. This woman began to see things within the yellow wallpaper that she had become obsessed with. She freaked out and saw images that may or may not have even been there upon the wall. In being obsessed with this paper, this woman begins to become better at hiding not only her journal but her true feelings from her husband.

Monday, May 5, 2008

Lady With Lapdog



This lady is very mysterious. She seems like she is really prissy and high maintenance. She also seems like she acts as if shes better than anyone one else. I think that she walks around holding her head high but has so many issues within. She seemed as if she had so much to hide. She barley even wanted anyone to know what was going on in her life.
Being that this story was about a marriage that was arranged, before I read all of the story I knew that there was going to be apart of the relationship that was not going to work. The man that the narrator said was married to this woman did not even like her. Most fixed marriages don't work because the people that are together never get a chance to actually get to know each other. I think that marriages should not be arranged. I believe that people should give it some time to get together and make sure that marriage is what they want.