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The Yellow Wall-Paper Is anybody ever truly sane? There’s always something that everyone is afraid of or curious about. You never really know who’s trying to help you, or who’s trying to hurt you. I believe that the girl in the story was slightly crazy at first. I believe that her husband had very slight intentions to help her, but the main reason was to get rid of her. She thought she was going for a good place to get better and see if anything could change, but what she didn’t know is she was in for something entirely different. When they first got there she was amazed by the beauty of everything. The mansion was beautiful, the gardens were ecstatic, and everything was great. That’s until she got inside and was assigned a room for the next three months. She wanted a room down in the basement, because that’s where all of the pretty rooms were, “‘Then do let us go downstairs,’ I said, …show more content…

“So I take phosphates or phosphites whichever it is, and tonics, and journeys, and air, and exercise, and absolutely forbidden to “work” until I am well again”(648). She especially wasn’t allowed to write. So she had to sneak writing in each day. She didn’t sleep well at night, but a whole bunch during the day. Most nights she would lay awake and look at that terrible wallpaper. She couldn’t quite get the grasp on what drew her to it, until the night she finally did. She had finally realized the women trying to escape from the wallpaper. She knew she had to help her escape from the wallpaper. She rushed over and started ripping the wallpaper from the wall. Once the wallpaper was gone she was finally free. She knew no one else was allowed to touch the wallpaper while alive. She thought she was finally out of the wallpaper, she was finally free. “‘I’ve got out at last,’ said I, ‘in spite of you and Jennie? And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back!’”(656). She was now officially

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She proceeds to explain the contributing factors of the narrator succumbing to her “disease” of hysteria which was isolation from social interaction and the restriction of her own thoughts. She points out that the narrator is confined to a simple square room with nothing to offer in terms of mental health therapy. The narrator’s lack of the ability to interact with anything or anyone leads to infatuation with the wallpaper, which turns out to be “the

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As the narrator becomes more fascinated with the wallpaper she moves progressively away from her normal day-to-day routines and lifestyle. When the narrator finally recognizes herself as the woman trapped in the wallpaper she screams at her husband "I 've got out at last," (Gilman 656) "you can 't put me back" (Gilman 656). She realizes woman are forced to hide behind the internal patterns of their lives and they need that she needs to be

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At this point she begins to tear down the wallpaper as fast as she can. Then the protagonist says, “And I 've pulled off most of the paper, so you can 't put me back!”(Perkins, 2013) Meaning since she pulled off all of the wallpaper the girl in it has escaped. Since the girl is her she has escaped and now she is free and will not return

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Other would say she frees herself of that cage. However, although the narrator feels the yellow wallpaper is the cause of her

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As she understands that the women trapped in the wallpaper is a reflection of herself she free herself mentally. Resulting in her going

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The narrator throughout the story states “I wish that he would take me away.” Also, the narrator wants to be able to control what she does. She describes how at night the woman shakes the pattern that traps her. In the end of the story, the narrator exclaims “I’ve got out at last in spite of you and Jane!” This shows that the narrator is, in fact, the woman trapped in the wallpaper, at least symbolically.

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Then after this she kinda just went beyond crazy. “I’ve got out at last, in spite of you and Jane. And i’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can 't put me back.” She wanted the woman in the yellow wallpaper to escape so she helped her out. Because her husband traumatized her she was always nervous and emotional.

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However, we later see a shift in her feelings towards the wallpaper as she states that she is growing “really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper” and comes to a realization that it may be “because of the wallpaper” (Par 94) As her opinions on the wallpaper begin to change, the progression of her mental instability becomes increasing visible. She begins to build a relationship with the wallpaper and claims that “There are things in that paper that nobody knows about” (Par 22) her. As this relationship with the wallpaper builds, her sanity begins to slip, and the hallucinations begin in a somewhat minor manor. In her first mention of “the woman” she says that the pattern on the

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The vast majority of people wouldn’t give the wallpaper much thought, however the narrator becomes obsessed with it. To the narrator, the wallpaper is alive and becomes the focus of all her time. Her overwhelming lure to the wallpaper becomes obvious when she first provides a very vivid description stating “It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide – plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions” (217-218). As she begins to lose her grip on reality, the narrator beings to see faces and eventually a woman within the wallpaper. At first, her description of seeing faces in the wallpaper seems like it could be her mind making since of the varying patterns or just part of her imagination.

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