"A White Heron" was a story of a girl name Sylvia and a little about her life. I looked for symbols, but I don't exactly know what the symbols are in this story. I did underline several sentences on page 60, thinking that they were symbols. I thought that when the sportsman gave Sylvia a jack-knife it symbolized a connection. I also thought it was ironic that Sylvia at one point "grieved because the longed-for white heron was elusive..." yet, in the end when she had found the secret behind the heron, she did not speak a word. I believe that symbolized a love for nature more than the sportsman.
"The Yellow Wall-Paper" is a story that did not interest me. It is a story of a sick woman who cannot do anything until she is better. From the very beginning I didn't believe that the woman was ailed with a "nervous condition." I believed that she might have been insane. Near the end of the story I thought more and more about how it made sense for the woman to be insane: she was not allowed to do much of anything, she spent a lot of time in that room, and the windows were barred. I believe the barred windows were to keep her from jumping out. I think the yellow wall-paper that she seemed to hate so much was symbolizing her sickness. At first she was sick and hated the wall-paper, but when she started to enjoy the wall-paper she felt better. I believe that she saw the wall-paper as being her sickness because of the quote, "I've got out at last, in spite of you and Jane! And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!"
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