"The Yellow Wallpaper" and "A Jury of Her Peers"

The Yellow Wallpaper

After reading the paper I couldn’t but keep on thinking about the poor schizophrenia patients. They are never insane, but scared. Imagine all of a sudden hearing voices that were never there, smelling scents you never smelled before, and seeing faces you have never seen before, messing with your mind. There is nothing you can do about those imaginations but being scared of them.  I liked this short story because it seemed like a diary of a schizophrenia patient, trying to understand and help her visions without realizing she is the one everyone is being concerned. Then again, we learned the author wrote this story about the treatments that were dealing with the mental disorders in a way to isolate them to from everything and everyone in order to help them, and how much the author despises that technique. 

 

A Jury of Her Peers

 This was the last short story I read and I thought it was very interesting one. Poor Ms.Minnie Wright killed her husband, but the important detail was that she was concerned about her fruit rather then the fact she might be going in the prison. Even the male characters were the ones who were to solve the case, women concluded what actually happened, and women held the key to Ms.Minnie Wright's conviction. I liked how the author Susan Glaspell places the evidences all half done or used, creating an illusion that the reader is the investigator himself. What I was left wondering, could it really be that the murder happened for the lonely wife lost her only friend, a yellow canary bird, or was the real crime done to her, why otherwise would she be insane and lonely.