When first reading the story, the narrator appears to be of normal sanity. Although she is somewhat irritated at the insistence by her husband and her brother, who is also a respected physician, that she remain on the rest cure and refrain from working (590). The only thing she openly objects to is the nursery John has chosen as their sleeping quarters. She senses that there is something not right with the room and the hideous yellow paper on the walls. I believe that even before she saw the women in the paper, the yellow paper began to call to her, to reach the in

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