The Yellow Wallpaper and A Jury of Her Peers

      The Yellow Wallpaper was an interesting short story wrote in a stream of conciousness narration.  This type of narration was new to me and I definitely enjoyed getting an inside peak at the characters thoughts and emotions.  The character is suffering from a kind of post partum depression and is prescribed a rest cure from her doctor which is her husband.  She is prohibited from doing most intellectual stimulation and is confined to a nursery with wallpaper in which she thinks a woman lives inside of.  The narrator of the story is unreliable though so it is hard to be sure if what she tells is what actually occurs. In all though the psychological aspect of the story was rather intriguing.
     A Jury of Her Peers was a unique story that put the reader in the driver seat of an investigation involving a murder.  The story presented the reader with the clues and let the reader decipher them and form there own opinion, until the end when the true workings of the death are revealed.  This makes this novel very psychologically engaging. In the story there are two juries, one of men and one of women. Her peers in the novel are the women, they understand where she is coming from and help back her up when the men make harsh comments. In all I enjoyed playing the role of detective in the novel and thought it was an interesting story.