Such a dear baby! And yet I cannot be with him, it makes me so nervous". .
The room that she is forced to stay in, "It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with window that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore". The woman loves the room and the view that it has, but is has hideous yellow wallpaper that she cannot stand. "Then the floor is scratched and gouged and splintered, the plaster itself is dug out here and there, and this great heavy bed, which is all we found in the room, looks as if it has been through wars. But I don't mind it a bit- only the paper". This yellow wallpaper has really irritated her to the point that she has stared at it so much that she has made this yellow wallpaper come alive. The lady in the wallpaper symbolizes her and makes her see her own feelings in a supernatural way. In the day time she is free and can write; nobody comes to bother her. She is able to write whatever she wants in her journal. However at night, she feels trapped, like the lady that she has imagined in the wallpaper. At night, John is home and the bars on the window not only trap her but they trap the lady in the wallpaper. The bars on the window make a shadow in the wall which portrays the lady to be trapped. "The faint figure behind seemed to shake the pattern, just as if she wanted to get out". She "got up softly and went to feel and see if the paper did move, and when I came back John was awake". The woman is showing her feelings and her actions in this yellow wallpaper. She relates and symbolizes herself to the yellow wallpaper. Whatever may happen to her in her everyday life mentally ironically happens to the lady inside the wallpaper too. .
Throughout the story the woman comes to believe that this pattern on the wall does move. She says, "I really have discovered something at last. Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out.