The woman behind shakes it!” (Stetson 6). At this point the narrator has lost touch with reality and is at the first steps of becoming insane. The narrator then became extremely possessive of the wallpaper she once despised, “ I have watched John when he did not know I was looking, and come into the room suddenly on the most innocent excuses, and I've caught him several times LOOKING AT THE PAPER! And Jennie too. I caught Jennie with her hand on it once” (Stetson 7). The narrator has become so overprotective of the wallpaper that she becomes irritated when someone simply looks at it. The short story The Yellow Wallpaper accurately depicts the descent into madness because the story presents the narrator’s mental illness and how her mental state slowly
The woman behind shakes it!” (Stetson 6). At this point the narrator has lost touch with reality and is at the first steps of becoming insane. The narrator then became extremely possessive of the wallpaper she once despised, “ I have watched John when he did not know I was looking, and come into the room suddenly on the most innocent excuses, and I've caught him several times LOOKING AT THE PAPER! And Jennie too. I caught Jennie with her hand on it once” (Stetson 7). The narrator has become so overprotective of the wallpaper that she becomes irritated when someone simply looks at it. The short story The Yellow Wallpaper accurately depicts the descent into madness because the story presents the narrator’s mental illness and how her mental state slowly