Character Analysis: The Yellow Wallpaper

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In the biging of the yellow wallpaper she thinks that their is something wrong with the house and does not like the idea of haveing rest cure and talks back to her husband but he is a doctor and gives her a room for her rest cure. pg1 "Still i will proudly declare that there is something queer abouy it".She hates the yellow wallpaper which is stripped off in varios places. pg2" the color is repelent, almost revolting;a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow- turning sunlight. SHe just had a baby so that says somrthing about her physicly. "It is fortune Mary is so good with the baby." After the 3 mounths of rest cure she falls in love with the wallpaper and treats it like a maze that she has to solve. pg 6 "I fancy it is

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