In "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the room the narrator is in has a severe influence on her. She describes the room as "airy" and "windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore", but despises the ghastly yellow wallpaper (369). To make a long story short, she eventually becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper, and it literally drives her mad.
The point I am trying to make is that, like our narrator, the room one is in has major influence on us. In other readings we found this to be true as well. As we talked about in it class, everyone has their different "spot" they write or do work in, thus, a room of one's own. I think that the certain characteristics in each of our rooms, like no noise, being alone, clean, no clutter, or yellow wallpaper, has significant influence on our lives and on our work. And the influence the room has can either make us, (getting an A on a paper) or break us, (go insane).
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