The wallpaper is a symbolism of her mental illness. She starts out by hating the wallpaper and describing how the wall paper looks and smells. She goes on and on about how repulsive the wallpaper is and how it smells bad. Towards the end of the story she goes crazily insane and try’s to rip out the wallpaper.
“ It is dull enough to confuse the eye in the following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke , Study and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide, plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.
“The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smoldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow turning sunlight.
I think the woman in the wallpaper can symbolize her being stuck in the room all day and night and she just wants to get out but she doesn’t know how she just feel …show more content…
“I pulled and she shook, and before morning we had peeled off yards of that paper
“I’ve got out at last”, Said I, “In spite of you Jane. And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back!”
The bars on the wallpaper can symbolize how she feels captive in a prison. The narrator feels stuck in this room she feels like she stuck in the wallpaper and she has to try to escape.
“Sometimes I think there are a great of women behind, and sometimes only, one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over.
“Then in very bright spots she keeps still, and in very shady spots she just takes ahold of the bars and shakes them hard”. The window might symbolize what she wants to see or maybe she wants to go out more but then she talks about a women creeping all day. I think that women is her she creeps when no one is around and hides when she sees someone. Maybe she wants to be outside but she is afraid that john might want her back inside because she is really ill or she is officially lost her
“ It is dull enough to confuse the eye in the following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke , Study and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide, plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.
“The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smoldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow turning sunlight.
I think the woman in the wallpaper can symbolize her being stuck in the room all day and night and she just wants to get out but she doesn’t know how she just feel …show more content…
“I pulled and she shook, and before morning we had peeled off yards of that paper
“I’ve got out at last”, Said I, “In spite of you Jane. And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back!”
The bars on the wallpaper can symbolize how she feels captive in a prison. The narrator feels stuck in this room she feels like she stuck in the wallpaper and she has to try to escape.
“Sometimes I think there are a great of women behind, and sometimes only, one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over.
“Then in very bright spots she keeps still, and in very shady spots she just takes ahold of the bars and shakes them hard”. The window might symbolize what she wants to see or maybe she wants to go out more but then she talks about a women creeping all day. I think that women is her she creeps when no one is around and hides when she sees someone. Maybe she wants to be outside but she is afraid that john might want her back inside because she is really ill or she is officially lost her