"The Yellow Wallpaper"

The Yellow Wallpaper was another good story that we had to read. It was about a woman who was going through some mental issue, and she was taken into care by her husband.  John her husband was her doctor, who put her in an isolated room with nothing but yellow wallpaper. She spends months in the room, with nothing to do. After some time she became insane, and started to illusionate that there was a women within the yellow wall paper. As time went by she began to lose a grip of reality, and started to become distant from her friends and family.  While in the room she was trying to accomplish one thing and that was to set the lady free within the wallpaper. This symbolize her becoming free from the room She became obsessed with the wallpaper. Jennie who was the sister of the husband begins to notice some strange thing around the room, like yellow stain over the wall and stuff. She eventually ripped the wallpaper off the wall and began to crawl over the place, and was later approached by her husband at the door where he fainted, and she was left free to leave the room.

"The Glass Menagerie"

The play “The glass menagerie” was very interesting, after reading the play, and watching the movie I can tell that this family is fragile. Laura the daughter being the most fragile separated herself from the world and devoted herself to her glass figures. She also had a bad leg and always walked with a limp because of her brace. Laura was very emotional, and never did anything to hurt anyone else. The glass menagerie pretty much represented her.  Another character was their mother was Amanda Wingfield, who was constantly trying to give Laura the life that she did not have back in her days.  Tom wingfield the son of Amanda and Laura younger brothers was taking care of the family through his warehouse job. Tom gets frustrated from his job, and he uses alcohol to escape from it. During the course of the play, Laura is introduced to one of tom friend Jim. After the power went out during dinner, Laura and Jim reconnected, and she mentions how he called her blue roses in high school. Jim gives Laura some advice about being confident and striving for your goal in order to be successful. Jim led Laura on with a kiss, and later told her that he was with someone else.

"Hills like white Elephants"

Hills like white elephants, is about a couple that were at the other side of a train station waiting on the train from Barcelona. And the expected arrive time for going to be in forty minutes. During their time there, they order some drinks. The bartender brought two glasses of beer out. While they we drinking, the girl mention that the hills look like white elephants, and the American did not acknowledge her, instead he order two more drinks that the girl wanted to try. She later mentions that the hills did not look like white elephants anymore, and that’s when the American told her that the operation was going to be simple and not painful. They got into an argument about whether he would still have the same emotion for her if she was to go through with the operation. The American told her that he’s not going anywhere, and that he was going to stick with her, and she said that she would do it because she did not care about herself. She said she will go through with it, so everything could be fine. She asked him do her a favor and stop talking about it. The bartender, brought two more glasses of beer, and alerted them that the train was coming in two minutes. The American carried their bags to the tracks, and when he came back to the table, he asked her if she felt better. She answered that she feels fine.