The Yellow Wallpaper Character Analysis

My reaction to the stories this week was how they were all about a character, and what the character wants, and how the character gets or does not get what he or she wants and how the character changes and also about a world the author creates for me as the reader. In the short story “The Lottery,” the author was consistently giving the assumption that someone was going to win something; and also gave the sense of hope of nothing wrong was going to happen. But as the narrator calls what the town’s people do each year as their official day of civic duty; as in being stoned to death by his or her peers has a lot of tension about the ritual traditions. In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Gilman uses the psychological horror tale to critique the position …show more content…
"Two Kinds” by Amy Tans tells of a woman and daughter expecting a great life in America. The daughter, wants to desperately become a Chinese Shirley Temple as a career in singing and dancing. Her mother is consumed in the belief that her daughter is a genius, thus making her do pointless tests that she sees other prodigy children doing in magazines such as standing on her head and reciting world capitals struggle for power between mother and daughter. Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery, represents any action, behavior, or idea that is passed down from one generation to the next that’s accepted and followed unquestioningly, no matter how illogical, bizarre, or cruel. The lottery has been taking place in the village for as long as anyone can remember. It is a tradition, an annual ritual that no one has thought to question. The lottery is an extreme example of what can happen when traditions are not questioned or addressed critically by new generations. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is driven by the narrator’s sense that the wallpaper is a text she must interpret, that it symbolizes something that affects her