... 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 not care about the actual human lives around her. Only the women in the wallpaper were the ones she cared about and wanted to let them be free as she is now free ... how they interpret differently the same story. The first described the narrator as suffering from mental illness whereas the second describes her illness as postpartum depression. The first sees the wallpaper as being ironic toward ...

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