MitchellSteele

So I was reading "The Yellow Wallpaper" and kept thinking how familiar this story was. I never read this story before, yet it made me feel like I had just run into a friend that I hadn't seen in years. Then it hit me, "The Shining", that was what I thinking about. The whole time I was reading and waiting for the supernatural. Now I know they aren't the same story, but there are a lot of things in common. I mean you have a family that moves into a secluded residence for a short time. You have supernatural events going on, which causes the main character in both stories to deteriorate from their original self. You have this idea of a sickness. I guess if a genetic theorist looked over "The Shining" and Stephen King one might find "The Yellow Wallpaper" somewhere in there. I didn't look/research to prove this idea, that can your homework assignment, right. I'm just saying that for my own personal reading of Gilman's work this realtionship between the two works smacked me in the face. There were some quotes in the story that also hinted that maybe King was ripping her off some in creating Jack Torrance's character, "There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will"(535) and "The fact is I am getting a little afraid of John"(536) -both found in Keesey's Contexts for Criticism. Now both of these quotes have that Jack Torrance idea about them, as does the narrators realtionship with the lady in the wall-this had me thinking about Jack and the Bartender. That's all I got for now. Good day.