Just as the story simply began with Leroy it simply ends with his wife Norma Jean leaving him. "Norma Jean wads up the cake wrapper and squeezes it tightly in her hand. Without looking at Leroy, she says, I want to leave you.- Even though its cliché to say, the normality of this story is like beating a dead horse. Shiloh is not worse off for its simplicity in that it makes the story easier to read, follow, and fully comprehend in only one reading unlike The Yellow Wallpaper whose complexity makes it quite the opposite on all fronts. .
Another reason why The Yellow Wallpaper seems to be difficult to read and comprehend is that Gilman uses high level diction in contrast to Shiloh, Mason uses vocabulary that is closer to the common vernacular. "A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity - but that would be asking too much of fate!- That sounds like an introduction to an Edgar Allen Poe story, who is famous for his crazy and abnormal plot twists and bizarre themes. The Yellow Wallpaper definitely follows that same crazed path in which the reader does not fully understand the story, much less any underlying meaning on the first read. Coincidentally, is one of the biggest reasons why this story is so abnormal. Nothing is out in the open and clear like it is in Shiloh, but instead everything is shrouded behind that wallpaper. "Up and down and sideways they crawl, and those absurd, unblinking eyes are everywhere."" It is just abnormal when someone is describing the wallpaper that is in their room in such a manner. The narrator's constant delirious vision of her wallpaper is difficult to follow as a reader. It is not ever made clear why the narrator was sick. Perhaps she was constantly on opium and that is why the little beady eyes of the wallpaper would follow her everywhere and be everywhere she looked. The woman's focus is all over the place as she will nearly do anything to gain freedom from her husband John, "To jump out the window would be an admirable exercise.