Reading Critically

I don't think I've ever read this way before. It was different for me. The first time I read these stories and passages I read them straight forward. Reading critically has shown me that there is so much more if read between the lines. I was actually amazed at how "The White Heron" was not straight forward at all. "The Yellow Wall-Paper" was also eye-opening, I do not think that the woman is insane but instead trapped, without many freedoms like the women in the 1900's.