My Experience
One thing that I learned about my writing from this project is that I can write a story or form a plot without needing an aspect of romance in my writing. In fiction I have written on my own, I have noticed an overwhelming theme of relationships just developing, but not necessarily needing to be in there. A lot of plots that I have developed have needed it, but this story is one in which I knew that there was no point for the character to have a relationship with anyone really, and I knew that it would be a challenge for me to keep that out. Additionally, I worried that I would write too much, but each time that I tried to add something in after I had completed the story, it felt too forced and made the story feel choppy and …show more content…
It offered some more information on definitions of mental disorders, saying a mental disorder is “a clinically behavioural or psychological syndrome that occurs in an individual” (Warne and McAndrew 156). What was surprising to me about this definition was leaving out any societal effects. I realize that there is no way to exactly place what causes someone to go over the edge, but it seems strange to leave out the possibility that external factors can affect someone’s mental health. While it doesn’t rule it out, I would have been curious to see it integrated into a definition. Later in the article, it says that “human experience is a cacophony of the cultural, biological, historical, ecological, political and psychological aspects of life” (Warne and McAndrew 160). Although this is not an accepted definition, the article at least acknowledges that things outside of the human body will affect what is inside the human body. That was useful to me especially since the things happening around my character affect her mood so easily, like the flowers, the sky, the woman, and her dog, as well as the absence of these things causing her to slip farther …show more content…
Basically, this woman is already mentally unstable and is forced to stay up in a room with yellow wallpaper. She becomes convinced that she is a woman trapped in the wallpaper which drives her insane and turns her against her husband and his sister. The very fact that it is the color of the walls that drives her crazy is something that I used in my story with the glaring white of the walls and linoleum that caused my protagonist to slip out of reality. Some of the lines that inspired my writing in particular were lines like “I never saw so much expression in an inanimate object before” (Gilman). Also, I used the line “This wall-paper has a kind of sub-pattern in a different shade, a particularly irritating one”