yellow wallpaper
...e roses. Her husband smothers her and does not allow her to write, visit with friends or even take care of her own baby because it will make her too nervous. The husband makes her take naps because sleeping a lot makes her calm. Jane follows her husbands orders for if she did not she would be a bad wife. She turns her back on the real life she should live as an adult and she acts as a child. She enjoys writing about breaking the restrictions her husband has placed on her. She secretly writes which is her escape from her husbands presence and here she is able to write her feelings and her sins she has committed. She writes about how she does not take the naps like her husband has prescribed for her and how she fancies about things outside in the garden. She dare not say any of this to her husband but she writes about all the things she does to disobey his wishes. While Jane spends time in this room with the “ horrid, repellent color of smoldering unclean yellow wallpaper”(2) she sees images taking shape. The images in the wallpaper are of “ curves for a small distance and then suddenly commit suicide, they plunge off at outrageous angles and destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions”(2). She also sees images that look like “ a broken neck and two eyes that stare at her upside down” (3). These images that Jane sees are of bars and strangled heads, similar to the bars in her room. The heads which are being strangled are that of her, she is finally realizing she is the one who is being strangled. She is being suffocated by her husband the great physician and the nanny who takes care of her child. Another image she sees in the pattern of the wallpaper is that of “ a woman stooping down and creeping behind the pattern of the wallpaper” (5). She sees a “ faint figure behind the paper which shakes the pattern” (5), as if this woman wants to get out. Jane becomes active at night and stares at the wallpaper trying to figure out the exact shapes that appear in the paper. When the moonlight falls on the wallpaper, she notices “ the mysterious woman creeping behind the bars in the wallpaper”. During the day the wallpaper loses its shape and only when night falls does the paper become alive again. Jane believes that during the day the mysterious woman goes for walks out in the garden but, hides in fear. Then at night this woman comes alive and tries to break out of the prison of the wallpaper. After, seeing this for a few nights, finally one night the woman appears but this time with many faces and she does not just creep around the room. This time the woman shakes and tries to climb through the bars. Jane who wants to help this woman become free of the wallpaper. She goes around the room creeping and taring all of the wallpaper off the walls. “The room begins to have a horrid smell to it. The smell of yellow lingers throughout the house” (7). Anywhere Jane ...