The Yellow Wallpaper, A Rose for Emily and Babylon It's amazing how differently people see the world. People from different walks of life interpret everyday experiences in different ways. This is especially evident when discussing the gaps that occur in the stories of great authors. In The Yellow Wallpaper, a woman is "treated" by a doctor (her husband) for a condition he calls anxiety. She is placed in a room, apparently one previously inhabited by a mentally ill person, and told to rest. Over the course of a few weeks the woman begins to show signs of paranoia and regularly hallucinates. Throughout the story the woman continually refers to the yellow wallpaper. The first, and perhaps largest, gap in the story comes when interpreting the meaning behind the wallpaper. Does the color yellow suggest something about madness? The woman repeatedly refers to the patterns created by the peeling wallpaper. Do the models suggest order from chaos? It is evident, from the number of times it is mentioned, that the wallpaper plays a role in the mental changes the woman experiences (and details her changes) throughout the story. Halfway through the story, she begins to see a woman moving behind the wallpaper, as if trying to escape her. Is she really seeing herself in the background, as Chris Tildon suggested, or is the hallucination what she fears she will become? At the end of the story, she takes on the role of the "creeping" woman and follows a stain around the room and over her unconscious husband. This supports the idea that she is the woman trapped in the newspaper. Perhaps she feels trapped and tormented by John's lack of sympathy for her plight. Another story that takes advantage of the gaps is F. Scott Fitzgerald's Babylon Revisited. The gaps in this story are numerous, but the most notable gaps involve Charlie's previous bout with alcoholism and his struggle to get his daughter Honoria back. Charlie claims to be a reformed man. However, after reading the story thoroughly, it is evident that Charlie plays a role in his own downfall. Is Charlie really trying to free himself from his past or is he really perpetuating it? In the story, Charlie visits his old "hangouts", maintains a "one drink a day" attitude, and inadvertently brushes elbows with a couple of old drinking buddies..