My thoughts on "The Yellow Wallpaper"

One of the first things I noticed about the narrator is that she had a very creative mind. She is obviously suffering from some sort of psychological disorder that is much more serious than her husband, who is also her doctor, expects. The narrator feels that it would help her if she could assume normal activities such as writing and being with her child, but her husband tells her she must not or her condition will worsen. So instead she "rests" in her room where she begins to mix fantasy and reality. She develops an obsession with the wallpaper in the room. As her frustration grows her imagination runs ramped. Without being able to use her creative and imaginative abilities her mind finds another way out.She develops a hatred for the wallpaper and she begins to see prison bars within the wallpaper. The narrator sees a woman who wants to be set free from the restraints of the wallpaper. She is really seeing herself and I believe the prison bars represent the restrictions put on her by her husband and his treatment. When she identifies herself with the woman inside the wallpaper she tears down the wallpaper and symbolically sets herself free. Her husband enters the room and realizes how sick his wife was and faints. The narrator continues to lap the room and climbs over his body every time she passes him; symbolically rising above the restraints of her husband.