Favorite and not so favorite

I would have to say my most favorite story of the semester was "The Yellow Wallpaper." I'll have to admit it feels more like a guilty pleasure than a genuine "like." I like how the story was able to draw the reader into the mind of our main character. I really began to feel the dementia that she felt, and the descriptions were so vivid and clear. Growing up I loved horror movies and ghost stories, I do not much enjoy that stuff anymore, but there was a part of me that felt almost nostalgic as I read the story and began to feel creeped out. It truly was odd and morbid, but gave an accurate depiction of how mental illness was viewed in that era.

My least favorite story would undoubtedly be "Hills like white elephants." I really just felt bad for the girl in the story, and I thought that it was a good representation of a real conversation, a conversation that in my life I've actually had. Hemmingway no doubt was a great artist, but his sentiments toward women were ever present in his work. But, the story in and of itself is not necessarily "bad," in fact, if it has evoked emotion in someone to this degree, for all practical reasons, it is in that sense a "good" story.