The narrator’s use of imagery establishes the supernatural within the world of “The Yellow Wallpaper,” while also taking the narrator’s reliability into question as her descriptions of the events at hand become blurry and vague. In the final passage of the Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator describes “...I wasn’t alone a bit! As soon as it was moonlight, and that poor thing began to crawl and shake the pattern, I got up and ran to help her. I pulled and she shook, I shook and she pulled, and before morning we had peeled off yards of that paper. A strip about as high as my head and half around the room. And then when the sun came and that awful pattern began to laugh at me I declared I would finish it to-day.Jennie looked at the wall in amazement, …show more content…
It could have been inferred that this entity was Jennie, but it could not have been as proven earlier, where the narrator told Jennie that she would prefer to sleep “alone” that night. Thus, the entity had to have been one in the supernatural category, in which the narrator helps by assisting to peel down the wallpaper. Additionally, this event takes the narrator’s own reliability into question, as her description of what occurs in the passage becomes blurry and vague. While what the narrator had done in the passage, especially depicted in the latter half of the quote, is literally true, the imagery that the narrator uses does not take the whole situation into account, where it is used to paint an unclear picture within the narrator’s conception of the events at hand. What the narrator says is all literally true, but gaps in the story and depiction of the wallpaper with imagery leaves much to be desired in the field of reliability. The wallpaper is described as having laughed at the reader or being a vicious thing, yet this imagery depicts the narrator’s mind as one to paint a picture in her own mind without concern, as the narrator does not consider if the supernatural could exist or feel something