How is the Yellow Wall Paper Crazy?

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This paper compares these two works and goes through the mental states of the characters. The writer shows how Bobbie Ann Mason?s "Shiloh" is the definition of a normal short story, with its easy to follow plot as well as clear beginning and end. However, Charlotte Perkins Gilman?s "The Yellow Wallpaper", makes little to no sense on the first reading. What contributes to making "The Yellow Wallpaper" so difficult to clearly understand at first is the unorthodox storyline and complex language used by the narrator.

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"The simplicity of Shiloh is clearly evident after reading the very first paragraph of the story. An example from the first page of the text is, "Leroy is a truck driver. He injured his leg in a highway accident four months ago" Nothing spells mundane more than those lines from this text. The name Leroy in addition to his truck driving career equates to normality in the reader's mind. People can identify with such a common name, and his average profession. Leroy has a wife Norma Jean, and a mother-in-law who annoys both of them. Leroy is rehabilitating from the aforementioned injury he obtained while on a long drive in his truck at which time he was under the influence of the drug Speed. People get in automobile accidents, and people often take drugs to make their lives appear better than they really are. Leroy is like a lot like these people, who work less than spectacular jobs, and want to take drugs as a way to lessen the feeling that they are wasting away their lives."

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