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The Yellow Wallpaper

       Before I read the story, I saw the title mentions wallpaper, so I thought there must be some connections to some kind of house. However, the story does have a setting in the house.  I noticed "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Gilman is a interesting story when I was reading the first few lines. Just like what I wished the story becomes more and more interesting as the protagonist "I" gets crazier. I love the way the author uses participant narrator to express the protagonist's imagination about the yellow wallpaper which really attracted me into this image. The part I like the least is that there are too many imagination going on throughout the story and I actually have skipped few lines that I thought isn't very important in general. I highly recommend this story, because it's one of the few stories that would bring me into the scene and make me imagine the things "I" sees in the yellow wallpaper.

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A Rose for Emily

          When I first saw the title of the short story "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, I told myself that this may not a story with a happy ending since I have read another book which named "Flowers for Algernon". The book ended with the failure of its protagonist's brain surgery. As I expected, "A Rose for Emily" isn't a happy story at all. William Faulkner uses the literary technique flashback few times throughout the story. I like this the most, because it's very interesting and it divided up the plot of the story into several layers. However, I hated it as well because it made me confused when I read it for the first time so I have to read some parts of the story over again to make sure I'm clear with what's happening in the story. I would like to recommend "A Rose for Emily" to a friend since it's hard or even impossible to see a real person in real life who will isolate themselves from outside world for their entire life as Emily did. Now, we can experience it in this story.