"The Yellow Wallpaper" Response

I was happily surprised when I read or reread "The Yellow Wallpaper". I read it before a few years ago and I realize that I really did not understand it very well. Before I found it so dull that I quickly forgot what it was even about. Normally when I read a story it sticks with me or at least certain details do. However, with "The Yellow Wallpaper" I could not remember anything at all other than that it obviously had something about yellow wallpaper in it. I found the story to be much more enjoyable this time around. I believe I picked up on alot of things I missed the last time.

I think that the most important thing about the story is what the yellow wallpaper subconciously symbolizes to the narrator. The narrator in the story is the main character, an unnamed woman. All we know about her is what she tells us and I also got the interpritation that she was an unreliable narrator. I love unreliable narrators like this woman and the murderer from "The Tell-Tale Heart". Just like the murderer, the readers cannot tell whether or not the woman is crazy or not. For the mostpart she seems strange enough, yet some things like seeing moving images in the wallpaper seem like an oddity. She eventually seems to at least lose some sanity at the very end when she finally rips away the wallpaper. Yet, too her credit, it was obvious that she did not like her room.