ronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide - plunging off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions. The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smoldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight. It is a dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulfur tint in others. (320)
             As she focuses on the things that she hates about the wallpaper, you can understand what she is beginning to realize. She starts to realize that her husband is controlling her. The color and texture of the wallpaper especially symbolizes this. This is shown when she writes even more about the paper,
             There are always new shoots on the fungus, and new shades of yellow all over it. I cannot keep count of them, though I have tried conscientiously. (327)
             The numerous new colors and shoots represent the ways John controls her more and more every day. John's wife even realizes that she does not like it and she feels it is bad. This is represented in the story when she writes,
             It is the strangest yellow, that wall-paper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw – not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things. (327)
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