"It is so pleasant to be out in this great room and creep around as I please!"
"Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!"
Jane is creeping at the end, becoming the women who she has seen out the window and behind the wallpaper. Generally, being on your knees is a sign of submission, and yet Jane creeps over John. In this scene, she is the one walking over him, she is the one in control in the moment. John has been walking all over Jane the entire story, constantly "putting her in her place". In the creeping in the end, there is a role reversal.
Daylight
"On a pattern like this, by daylight, there is a lack of sequence, a defiance of law, that is a constant …show more content…
This is why the woman behind the wallpaper (and Jane) rarely creep by day. They wish for no one to see them. In the same sense that it was taboo to be seen supporting women's rights. To be out and about instead of in the house doing chores. When Jane decides to tear the paper down and ultimately free the woman behind the wallpaper, and herself, its done in the daylight. This can be seen as an admission to her acceptance that she does not fill the common gender roles of the time. She is out where everyone can see her, creeping in daylight.
Writing
"There comes John, and I must put this away,—he hates to have me write a word."
"I think sometimes that if I were only well enough to write a little it would relieve the press of ideas and rest me."
Writing is Jane's form of expression. The act of restricting her writing further shows how much control was warranted on women. They were not allowed to think for themselves. Allowing Jane to write (and just be herself) would have had her better a lot faster than the rest cure that had been imposed upon
"Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!"
Jane is creeping at the end, becoming the women who she has seen out the window and behind the wallpaper. Generally, being on your knees is a sign of submission, and yet Jane creeps over John. In this scene, she is the one walking over him, she is the one in control in the moment. John has been walking all over Jane the entire story, constantly "putting her in her place". In the creeping in the end, there is a role reversal.
Daylight
"On a pattern like this, by daylight, there is a lack of sequence, a defiance of law, that is a constant …show more content…
This is why the woman behind the wallpaper (and Jane) rarely creep by day. They wish for no one to see them. In the same sense that it was taboo to be seen supporting women's rights. To be out and about instead of in the house doing chores. When Jane decides to tear the paper down and ultimately free the woman behind the wallpaper, and herself, its done in the daylight. This can be seen as an admission to her acceptance that she does not fill the common gender roles of the time. She is out where everyone can see her, creeping in daylight.
Writing
"There comes John, and I must put this away,—he hates to have me write a word."
"I think sometimes that if I were only well enough to write a little it would relieve the press of ideas and rest me."
Writing is Jane's form of expression. The act of restricting her writing further shows how much control was warranted on women. They were not allowed to think for themselves. Allowing Jane to write (and just be herself) would have had her better a lot faster than the rest cure that had been imposed upon