ovoke study,” (Gilman 552) this description can be compared to women in general. Women are confusing objects, but the more you don’t understand them, the more intriguing they are. She also says that the wallpaper is “stripped off, about as far as I can reach.” (Gilman 552) She claims that children did it when it was a nursery, but it is stripped only as far as she can reach. This suggests that she was probably the one peeling the wallpaper off of the wall.The wallpaper is obviously the woman’s source of madness. At first, she just dislikes the wallpaper, but after a while she begins to dispise it and its properties and implications in her mind. This can be seen in the fact that John believes she is getting better, when in actuality she is getting worse. She is going insane from her attempts to attain peace with the wallpaper. She becomes completely obsessed with the wallpaper. Why would anyone in his or her right mind be so concerned with a piece of paper? Eventually she breaks down and she begins tearing off the wallpaper. She then implies that she has a rope, which she hid. She plans to free herself from the miserable wallpaper, by hanging herself from the bars enclosing the windows. Similar to the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Edgar Allan Poe makes his narrator of “The Fall of the House of Usher” insane as well. The narrator in this story also tells a strange tale that can’t be taken from face value. He may be on drugs, because there is a constant referral to opium throughout the story. In “The Fall of the House of Usher” we never do know what is real, a dream, or a product of the narrator’s hysteria.From the narrator’s description of the actual house, the reader can tell that there is something unusual and supernatural about the building. From the onset of the story we know that the narrator is not in his right mind, because h...
