The narrator is controlled by the men in her life. Mainly her husband, but also her brother. They both believe …show more content…
The yellow wallpaper room is her least favorite room in the house even from the beginning, with its “smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the sunlight.” And this is the room that she is forced to call her own. Because her husband thinks it the best room. She comments numerous times on her hatred for the paper. The reader watches her dissent into madness personified in this wallpaper. The paper causes the narrator to see certain things at times and then not at others. This causes her to question her own sanity and she never had before. The narrator begins to see a woman trapped behind the paper. As she loses touch with reality she realizes that this woman is in fact herself. She rips the paper off to free