wallpaper madness

             In "The Yellow Wallpaper" we meet a woman through the writings of her journal pages. It is up
             to our imagination to figure out what she looks like, but we do know she is a new mother, so I believe she is
             in her late twenties to early thirties. In her first journal entry, we find out she has some sort of illness, and
             later on one can figure out that she has a mental disorder. She writes things down that a normal person
             would in her first entry, but she progressively gets crazier. She gives clues that she has always been a bit far
             out there. She says that when she was a child, walls and furniture would entertain and scare her. This gives
             clues to her imagining the things she sees in the wallpaper.
             The focus of her journaling is the yellow wallpaper. At first she hates it and wants to switch rooms,
             but then she gradually in fascinated by it and wants to stay until she figures it out. She spends hours and
             hours just staring at it. I find it ironic how the bars are over the windows and the bed in bolted down. She
             tells us that she thinks the room was once a nursery. But I think it was a room for an insane person like
             Being held in the house with limited outside contact would make a sane person go insane, let alone
             a person who is already a bit crazy. She increasingly grew worse as she was in that house. In a way, I think
             John, her husband, wanted her to go crazy, he controlled everything about her. By not allowing her write
             was a mistake because writing more would have given her progress.
             She talks about how beautiful things are in her first entries. But gradually her senses get warped.
             She begins to try to master the wallpaper and figure out what it is, and when she does she speaks of a
             woman peaking out behind it and creeping around. Of course I believe it is all in her head. The woman
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