" 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 that she has never seen worse paper in her whole life. The narrator notes that the paper is, "dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide- plunge off outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions (275)." The narrator finally describes that the paper is a repellant color that almost is revolting; a smoldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by slow-turning sunlight. All of these facts about the setting the narrator describes drive's her to her insanity.
As the narrator spends more time in the top room of the colonial house the paper begins to prey on her more and more. She describes that the paper looks at her as if it knew what a vicious influence it had on her. The narrator is confined to the room so much that she begins to see objects appear within the paper. She states that there is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at her upside down. Because of her confinement the narrator has memorized the patterns of the wallpaper, which constantly dwells on her mind. Besides the wallpaper in the room the narrator describes other aspects that add to the setting. She describes that the floor is scratched and gouged and splintered, the plaster itself, she states is dug out here and there, and the big heavy bed that nailed to the floor appears as it had been through a war. The narrator states that she doesn't mind these things only the wallpaper. The amount of time that the narrator is confined in her room is show through the passage, "This wallpaper has a kind of sub-pattern in a different shade, a particularly irritating one, for you can only see it in certain lights, and not clearly then.
