the Yellow Wallpaper

I found the Yellow Wallpaper to be an extremely disturbing account of insanity. In the Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator seems relatively “sane” at the start of the story. She is lucid and even recognizes that she has a disease that she is working to cure. As a result, you relate to the narrator and trust her accounts of her surrounds and events. When she describes her room with the peeling wallpaper, bars on the windows, scrapes on the floor, rings on the walls, and the lone bolted down bed we believe her when she assumes it was once a nursery. We have no reason to doubt her. Yet, when we see her slowly descend into madness we realize that maybe she was mad all along – perhaps she has always been in that room. Perhaps it is an asylum and she has actually done all of the damage. This sudden twist was shocking to me as a reader and made me question everything I just read. It made the story much more disturbing and uncomfortable.