As I read The Yellow Wallpaper, it seemed to drag on slowly, as the women herself slowly revealed she was going crazy. At first it seemed like she was just sick and he husband was admitting to it cause he was so concerned with his work in town that he didn't really care to listen. Then the story shows him to really care, but she becomes suspicious of him. The part that bothered me was, why was it such a big deal that she HAD to be in that specific room? Especially since she was so uncomfortable in the room you'd think her husband would just let her switch if she was just going to be there for the summer. There could be a hidden plot behind the husbands action. Perhaps she's actually in a hospital to help her. There are bars on the window and they don't like her to leave, but then again the husband stays the night with her.
Another part of the story that was intense was the fact that she was so obsessed with the wallpaper and there being something moving within it, she started acting like everyone else wanted to figure it out, but she wanted it to herself. She says she caught John and Jennie looking at the paper. She thought they wanted it but she wanted to find it out all by herself. In the end, she becamen one with the woman who was 'in the wall, creeping the garden.' It was her own reflection. Then she tore down the wall paper and locked her huband out. It brought up something with about a rope that she kept hidden and at first I thought she was planning to try and capture the woman in the wall, but it'd end up being her and she'd kill herself. Though, after that the husband came into the room as she was crawling around tearing down the paper and he passed out. This I still don't understand why he fainted. She tore down wall paper... What's the big deal?
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