The Yellow Wallpaper

Andrea Antomattei

10/21/14

English

Pro.Alexander

The Yellow Wallpaper

1. Is this a ghost story?

    

           I believe based on the facts given in this short story, that this is a ghost story.

The narrator was experiencing horrific images of a woman being behind the paper. She couldn't sleep at night, she didn't like being alone, and she was afraid of what was behind the wallpaper. I know in the basic, a ghost is something that is “an apparition of a dead person that is believed to appear or become manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image.”

We know there is nothing dead in the house but the the narrator's belief of that there is something wrong with the wallpaper can be included of what is a “ghost”. Also the “manifest to the living” is another proof of there being a ghostly like feeling in the house because the wallpaper first haunts the main character but then surprisingly flows to the husband and nanny; in making them touch and stare at the paper. Making everyone question,what is with the wallpaper.

        Then in story, the description of the wallpaper gives the reader a chilling and suspense effect, which again can be included to the description of a “Ghost”. In paragraph 16, pg.2 the narrator explains the first feeling of her presence in the house, “That spoils my ghostliness, I am afraid, but I don't care - there is something strange about the house - I can feel it.” It is alerting that the narrator used creepy words in this quote because it makes sure that the readers  know the chill going on with the narrator. How “ghostliness” is used to describe her soul feeling the loneliness of the house but her strong attitude of not caring about her fear of the house, she is believed that there is something wrong with the house.

Bryant Park

Andrea Antomattei

9/16/14

English

 

           Three people are sitting in a table in the park of The New York Public Library, with the smell of fresh wet grass in the air and the sunshine high up. One woman is very pretty with a look on her face that says she is having a pleasant afternoon. Sitting next to her is another woman. No face: just her back to my view. Her head is shaking though, left and right dramatically and waving her hands around trying to get the woman she is speaking to understand what she is saying.

         The pretty woman touches the faceless woman on her shoulder. On her wrist she is wearing a silver diamond watch. The faceless woman looks down and touches it and as she does the pretty woman is pleased with the compliment and flips her brownish blonde hair and smiles excitedly saying thank you to the faceless woman. But suddenly the woman with the lovely face quickly checks her phone and the faceless woman rolls up her grey sweater sleeves, stretches her arms up and with that flow puts her hands behind her head.

       

 The whole time there is a man on his phone, sitting with the two woman,paying no mind to them. He is crunching his eyebrows down with his fingers moving rapidly. To something interesting on his phone. Tapping his feet to the sound of the piano playing,he stops and looks up to the two women talking and joins the conversation. The handsome man than shakes his hair as he looks disappointed to what the two woman said and leans back into his phone.

     There is a pigeon walking around all three of them. It shakes 

so quickly and raddled itself to just make one step. Keeps moving outward and inward by the faceless woman's feet and picks the ground looking for food. Moving it's neck rapidly and shakes its feathers, the pigeon walks excitedly and quickly toward the old lady throwing bread on the floor.