... to show us her abysmal thoughts. "I'm getting really fond of the room in spite of the wall-paper. Perhaps because of the wall-paper. It dwells in the mind so!" (474) Here, the narrator explains to the reader her feelings for a particular room that she has been forced to live in, as it grows on her. The wall-paper represents the narrator's "repressed other" or "suppressed self," and that is why ... even getting worse, which becomes apparent in later lines when she talks of herself laying on the bed and trying to follow the lines in the wall-paper to their destinations. Her first generali...

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... ...But John would not hear of it." Her first impressions of the "nursery" are as anyone's would be; very defensive. She later becomes attached to the room. "I'm getting really fond of the room in spite of the wall-paper. Perhaps because of the wall-paper. It dwells in the mind so!" Here, the narrator explains to the reader her feelings for a particular room that she has been forced ... to live in, as it grows on her. The wall-paper represents the narrator's "repressed other" or "suppressed self," ... clearly illustrate the insanity felt by the narrator, the disturbed wife. One could say ...

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In The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the author takes us on a journey through the mind of a woman going insane. The narrator's writings, " this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind - are our binoculars into her private thoughts and failing mind. The main character is round and individual but very much a product of her time. She perceives herself as weak and of lesser value than her husband. She ... is the strangest yellow, that wallpaper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw "not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things."" It is t...

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