When someone tells you a story you are expecting to hear what actually happens. That is not always the case. We have certain characters from stories whom we encounter that they way the story is told is so believable, even though is not true. But there is always the case when story is told unbelievably, and we end up believing the facts that are presented to us, as readers. Two stories that come in mind about main characters or narrators whose stories are told in different aspects – believable and unbelievable – would be “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “Cathedral.” Each character share a personal experience whose journey is very intriguing and conducive. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman, a woman who has been diagnosed by her husband,
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The series of events in the story is told by this ill woman; and they way she tells the story is very believable. For example, since the beginning of the story she is complaining how terrible her sickness is; but her husband and brother do not seem to think so. Her husband is always saying that “the very worst thing [she] can do is to think about [her] condition” (Gilman 303). Honestly though, she is the only person who is able to describe her feelings and emotions better than anyone could do it from the story. Another example that makes her a credible narrator is when she describes how she sees the wallpaper. “And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern” (Gilman 308). She talks about it as if those shapes that are appearing from the wallpaper were actually human beings. But in reality, she is the only who can know since she spends her days and nights in that room looking at those wallpapers through her own eyes. As Jacob Leitner from the Discussion board said, “It’s her reality, regardless of …show more content…
The narrator to this story is very unbelievable in some aspects of the story. He is the kind of person who lacks confidence and faith in himself and his fellow man, and is very hostile towards the blind man, especially. For example, he is a man, who chooses to live in front of the TV ignoring the rest of his life, and is constantly drinking lots of scotch and smokes marijuana. He says, “Every night I smoked dope and stayed up as long as I could before I fell asleep. My wife and I hardly ever went to bed at the same time” (Carver 78). From this point, he seems to be the kind of person who would not care about anyone or anything, so it would not bother for him to be telling the reader the truth of the situation. He also seems like a very disrespectful person when he makes jokes about blind people, and gets very offensive when he is jealous of the friend that his wife has with her blind friend, Robert. One problem he has is that he does not confront the depths of his loneliness. Instead, he turns his happiness towards others, attacking people even for their disabilities (as with Robert). Another example is when Robert asked the narrator to draw a cathedral together. In this situation, the narrator and Robert connect on a higher level of emotion, since he is actually trusting on
The series of events in the story is told by this ill woman; and they way she tells the story is very believable. For example, since the beginning of the story she is complaining how terrible her sickness is; but her husband and brother do not seem to think so. Her husband is always saying that “the very worst thing [she] can do is to think about [her] condition” (Gilman 303). Honestly though, she is the only person who is able to describe her feelings and emotions better than anyone could do it from the story. Another example that makes her a credible narrator is when she describes how she sees the wallpaper. “And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern” (Gilman 308). She talks about it as if those shapes that are appearing from the wallpaper were actually human beings. But in reality, she is the only who can know since she spends her days and nights in that room looking at those wallpapers through her own eyes. As Jacob Leitner from the Discussion board said, “It’s her reality, regardless of …show more content…
The narrator to this story is very unbelievable in some aspects of the story. He is the kind of person who lacks confidence and faith in himself and his fellow man, and is very hostile towards the blind man, especially. For example, he is a man, who chooses to live in front of the TV ignoring the rest of his life, and is constantly drinking lots of scotch and smokes marijuana. He says, “Every night I smoked dope and stayed up as long as I could before I fell asleep. My wife and I hardly ever went to bed at the same time” (Carver 78). From this point, he seems to be the kind of person who would not care about anyone or anything, so it would not bother for him to be telling the reader the truth of the situation. He also seems like a very disrespectful person when he makes jokes about blind people, and gets very offensive when he is jealous of the friend that his wife has with her blind friend, Robert. One problem he has is that he does not confront the depths of his loneliness. Instead, he turns his happiness towards others, attacking people even for their disabilities (as with Robert). Another example is when Robert asked the narrator to draw a cathedral together. In this situation, the narrator and Robert connect on a higher level of emotion, since he is actually trusting on