The Yellow Wallpaper: A Scene Analysis

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The story The Yellow Wallpaper was the one I choose to represent on a drawing since it guides me to several feelings and to scary Halloween stories. The scene I draw is significant for me because I believe this is when Jane is feeling free and as a psychological way of thinking she is not Jane anymore she is the women on the yellow wallpaper. In this scene she starts to hallucinate by feeling obsessed with the fact of peeling the yellow wallpaper until she takes it all from the wall. Moreover, this drawing is representing when she was about to “escape” from her husband but she did not know that she was actually mentally ill with all that idea of peeling a yellow wallpaper will bring her to escape or be free from her husband. I tried to draw

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