... but he does not listen to her and insists they must stay and she must remain in the room with the yellow wallpaper, but the narrator is slowly losing her mind with each day. She literally becomes insane, believing a woman lives within her wallpaper, creeping about and ripping the wallpaper away. Her desire is to be free from this wretched room with moldy wallpaper, but ... about the smell of yellow, the smooch running across the walls, and the woman who she sees who lives in the wallpaper but retreats to the windows during the daytime. She begins to believe it is her duty to free the wom...

• Word Count: 950
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... reconsidered because when they were wrote it was not acceptable by the male beliefs. Gilman was married and had a daughter and after giving birth she had what we call postpartum depression. Doctors prescribed a rest cure for them and that moved her to write "The Yellow Wallpaper-. The story is about a cruel husband who makes his wife go insane by supposedly helping her. John her husband is a physician who ... was starting to go insane. The woman in the paper is uncovering truths about how bad the wife's life is. At the end of the story the woman in the paper was herself and she states, ...

• Word Count: 1250
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... barred for little children, and there are ring and things in the wall (275)." One major factor that the narrator describes about the room is the offal wallpaper. She describes that the paint and paper looks as if a boys" school had used it. The paper is stripped off in great patches all around the head of the bed, about as far as one can reach. She states ... continues she begins to see more and more objects within the paper. She describes, "The front pattern does move - and no wonder! The women behind shakes it (283)." The narrator states that the women within the wall must get out duri...

• Word Count: 1123
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School