... the wallpaper, we see it is herself she is seeing. There is a major change that "sticks out like a sore thumb" which is when she speaks of the "creeping about" that the women do, and that she "locks the door when she goes out creeping". We can definitely see then that her illness has started to cross the line into complete madness. The symbolic contrast between the "green" and the "yellow ... that she had fully accepted this life she was forced to live. By giving into the life of the "yellow", she could consider herself freed from the confines of her husband fussing over her. She did no...

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... for her. Nora feels that her husband is an honorable man who loves her, and treats her in a way that is in her best interest. In the story "The Yellow Wallpaper," written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the speaker accepts that her husband's parental treatment is in her best interest. Her husband has diagnosed her with a nervous condition, and although she does not agree ... with him she feels that "If a physician of high standing...assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression...what ... century. WORKS CITED Cooke, Rose T...

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