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People who think that this didn't end in suicide.....did we read the same story? Anyway. This story was rich in precise prose, representation, and.... Torment. As readers go among the pages, we start to mimic the main characters frustration at her situation, her husbands unwillingness to hear her. It's a tragic tale of mental illness and repression of female autonomy.

in this yellow, dank room keeps her awake. I just think that line was so genius! The moonlight coming in from outside to illuminate bars, perhaps prison bars, showing how badly she wants out.

Her mental illness and mold poisoning is deranging her thought process so much that she truly believes the patterned, puzzling wallpaper is keeping the woman locked beyond it, when in reality this is her processing her emotions about her husband keeping her tormented in this room, under stimulated and distressed. "By moonlight, [the outside pattern] it becomes bars!" At night with the creeping moon, her entrapment-

"...I laid there for hours trying to decide whether that front pattern and the back pattern really did move together or separately" immediately after begging to leave, to escape the woman trying to claw her way out of the wallpaper, which her husband dismissed and further on ridiculed as his wife claimed mental illness, she returns to the wallpaper, trying to establish order in a chaos that no good will could fix