... is becoming very fond of the room spite the wallpaper but then she describes it might be because of the wallpaper. The narrator also describes a smell that she has noticed because of the wallpaper. She states the smell of the paper creeps all over the house; "hovering in the dinning room, skulking in the parlor, hiding in the hall, lying in wait for me on the stairs (282)." The ongoing smell also symbolizes the continuing thought of the wallpaper in her mind ... . She describes that she even is woken up at night by the smell hanging ... ...

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... in the attic room of the house, which at one point may have been a nursery. Actually, the room seems to be more of a prison than a place for children to play. The windows have bars on them, and the bed is nailed to the floor. There is even a gate at the top of the stairs. Even more disturbing to the narrator, however, is the yellow wallpaper, peeling or pulled off the walls in strips. In the beginning, the paper ... 's pattern jolts and annoys the narrator's sensibilities, but later her attitude has a bizarre change. The narrator's morbid fascination with the yellow wallpaper is the firs...

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... can cause insanity. He has imprisoned the narrator into a domestic prison. The woman in the wallpaper is imprisoned in the domestic sphere, in which women are expected only to clean the house and take care of the children. Likewise, the narrator is trapped within her prison-like room and mansion. The exterior of the mansion is described as a series of closed-off sections, while the room she rests in, with its ... new shoots on the fungus, and new shades of yellow all over it; There is something else about that paper - the smell! It creeps all over the house. I find it hovering in the d...

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... the end. The setting of "The Yellow Wallpaper" is vital to uncovering the meanings hidden underneath the surface. Because she is being forced to stay in the attic of the old house, she is also being kept, figuratively, in the "attic" of her mind (Twentieth 111). The distance in the relationship of the narrator and her husband is portrayed in the necessity for two beds (Kennedy et al. 425). Bechelard goes so far as to say that the house ... can be seen as a small version of the world and the social problems that burden it (Twentieth 110). Upon close scrutiny of the setting and small deta...

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... symbolic of how the depression makes the young woman feel as if she is fading away. As the oppression consumes the young woman, she begins to imagine the wallpaper smell is trying to overtake her. "But there is something else about the paper the smell! ...it creeps all over the house. I find it hovering in the dining-room, sulking in the parlor, hiding in the hall, lying in wait for me on the stairs...I wake ... up in the night and find it hanging over me...But now I am used to it" (603). The wallpaper smell is symbolic of the deadly insanity that she imagines is lying in ... wait for ...

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... her she would never be completely satisfied wherever they stayed because of her own nervousness of the new settings they resided in. If he changed the wallpaper, next "it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then the gate at the head of the stairs, and so on." (186) The one thing she detested the most about the room was the yellow corruptly sculpted wallpaper, that she described as looking "as ... she will solve its mystery and answer all the questions she has built up. In her last days at the house, she fails to figure out the wall's purpose and shreds it of it...

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