The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a real classic.
Believing she must try to free the woman i.
She soon begins to see a figure in the design, and eventually comes to believe that a woman is creeping on all fours behind the pattern.
With no stimulus other than the wallpaper, the pattern and designs become increasingly intriguing to the narrator.
She describes how the longer one stays in the bedroom, the more the Wallpaper appears to mutate, especially in the moonlight.
The narrator devotes many journal entries to describing the Wallpaper in the room - its "yellow" smell, its "breakneck" pattern, the missing patches, and the way it leaves Yellow smears on the skin and clothing of anyone who touches it.
It is strongly implied however that the room was formerly used as a prison to contain another mentally ill patient, as the bed has been nailed to the floor and there is a gate at the top of the stairs leading to the room.
Ultimately, readers are left to be unsure what is the source of the room\'s state, leading them to see the ambiguities in the unreliability of the narrator.
The narrator blames all these to children having resided there as most of the damage is away to their reach.
At the time, the windows are barred, the Wallpaper has been torn, there are metal rings in the walls - the kind that are used for restraints - and the floor is scratched.
Along with the couple, John\'s sister Jennie is present serving as the housekeeper.
She and her husband move into an upstairs room.
The family spends the summer at a colonial mansion that strikes the narrator as odd.
Her supportive, though misunderstanding husband, John, believes it is in her best interests to go on a rest cure after experiencing symptoms of "temporary nervous depression" after the birth of their baby.
Here\'s a simple plot to The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman The story details an intricate period in the life of a young woman.
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The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a real classic
