yelllow wall paper
In the beginning of the story, the author continuously talks of the wallpaper as being a hideous creation. ?One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin.? (pg. 107). She talks about being able to see two different patterns in the paper as well, one behind the other. In the ?back pattern? she sees a figure of a woman who is desperately trying to escape the bars formed by the ?front pattern?. ?This wall-paper has a kind of sub-pattern in a different shade, a particularly irritating one, for you can only see it in certain lights?I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about behind that sill and conspicuous front design.? (pg. 110). Numerous hours of being kept in her room and being surrounded by the wallpaper, has enabled out author the chance to study the wall in great detail. She finds that the paper some what represents her, and her life. As in the wallpaper, our author is being kept down and made helpless by her husband, or the front design. She sees this, and that is why at the end the author, is ripping down the wallpaper, in order to help this lady be rid of a
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, front pattern, pattern pattern, equal rights, front pattern pattern, pattern figure woman, figure woman, story written, front design, pg 107, trying escape, pattern figure,
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