In The Yellow Wallpaper, the woman trapped in the wallpaper often reflects the narrator’s thoughts and actions. Both the narrator and the woman are trapped in their surroundings. The only person in The Yellow Wallpaper that sees the woman is the narrator herself. John, the narrator’s husband, wishes that she becomes better and does not want to change the room she is staying in. Finally, the narrator wishes to be free. The woman in the wallpaper reflects the narrator because she is trapped, only the narrator can see her, John wishes them to stay as they are, and she wants to be free.
The narrator and the woman are trapped by the yellow wallpaper. The narrator refers that in the night the wallpaper is just barred trapping the woman inside of it. “At night in any kind of light, in the twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern
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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.
In The Yellow Wallpaper, the woman that is trapped in the wallpaper is the narrator symbolically. The narrator and the woman are trapped in the room with the yellow wallpaper. The woman in the paper is only seen by the narrator. Everyone wants the narrator to stay the same and no one will change the wallpaper, trapping the woman in there. The narrator wants to be free from listening to others, the nervous depression, and the yellow wallpaper. The woman in the wallpaper reflects the narrator because she is trapped, only the narrator can see her, John wishes them to stay as they are, and they want to be