Comparing The Thing In The Forrest And Yellow Wallpaper

In the stories, “The Thing in the Forrest” and “Yellow Wallpaper,” both have seem to have symbolism behind both stories. The two girls Penny and Primrose in the story “The Thing in the Forrest” go into the forest and encounter a terrifyingly scary creature that scarred them both for years. In the story “Yellow Wallpaper” the nameless narrator faces a “creature” of her own. The woman in the wallpaper. This woman in the wallpaper was like the creature Penny and Primrose seen in the forest, just not as terrifying. The woman in the wallpaper was symbol of the narrator trying to rid her problems by facing her problems, like the monster that Penny and Primrose, the monster resembles the war the two girls faced which took them years to overcome.