Depends on what “makes sense” meant. I understood that the dude basically locked up his wife and she went insane, crawling around the room thinking her shadow was another woman in the wallpaper. Also that she perhaps killed her husband in the end.
I also caught the vague impression maybe they lost a kid since she mentions shes in “the nursery.” Of course bars on the window makes it seem like maybe shes in a hospital, but that wouldn’t track with her having a blade to sharpen her pencil with.
I still don’t really know what the message is. People are fucked up? Mental illness was not well understood nor treated well in the victorian era? People can go insane because they’re treated like they’re insane?
Addendum: Just read the wiki article. Yeah the feminist themes were almost entirely lost on us. To be fair I grew up in a very rural conservative town, but that raises the question of why have us read the book if not to talk about the main point? I think we were just supposed to pick out metaphors and similes etc. from the text
We read that story specifically for the feminist themes in our school in germany, as they were a necessary topic in the curriculum. The topic was called feminist short stories and also included a story called “weekend” and “story of an hour”, which were both quite interesting, especially for their time
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That does seem a bit young for that. Did it make sense to you at that age?
AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Depends on what “makes sense” meant. I understood that the dude basically locked up his wife and she went insane, crawling around the room thinking her shadow was another woman in the wallpaper. Also that she perhaps killed her husband in the end.
I also caught the vague impression maybe they lost a kid since she mentions shes in “the nursery.” Of course bars on the window makes it seem like maybe shes in a hospital, but that wouldn’t track with her having a blade to sharpen her pencil with.
I still don’t really know what the message is. People are fucked up? Mental illness was not well understood nor treated well in the victorian era? People can go insane because they’re treated like they’re insane?
Addendum: Just read the wiki article. Yeah the feminist themes were almost entirely lost on us. To be fair I grew up in a very rural conservative town, but that raises the question of why have us read the book if not to talk about the main point? I think we were just supposed to pick out metaphors and similes etc. from the text
Micromot@piefed.social 1 month ago
We read that story specifically for the feminist themes in our school in germany, as they were a necessary topic in the curriculum. The topic was called feminist short stories and also included a story called “weekend” and “story of an hour”, which were both quite interesting, especially for their time