will follow that pointless pattern to some sort of a conclusion.” The treatments which call for isolation, was a respective factor. The narrator did not believe isolation would cure her disorder. Social contact and outside stimulation were her desires. “I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus, but John says the worst thing I can do is think about my condition.” She was cut off from society and forbidden from seeing her baby. It is not natural to be confined to little social contact for large amounts of time. Society provides a sundry of different sights, sounds, feelings and stimuli to its inhabitants. To go without outside contact would be living against nature’s way for man. To fulfill her social need she invents a person she thinks she sees inside the wallpaper. “I didn’t realize for a long time what the thing was that dim sub pattern, but now I am quite sure it is a woman.” The vision of a woman is clearly an indication of the ill effects caused by prolonged isolation. Her hallucination becomes so vivid that she becomes involved with her imagined character. In a frantic action the now malfunctioning narrator began to try to free the women from behind the wallpaper’s pattern. She destroys yards of the paper. “ I pulled and she shook, I shook and she pulled, and before morning we had peeled off yards of that paper.” The treatment contributes to her impending mental demise. She is first diagnosed with a minor nervous disorder. On her last day of treatment she is participating with hallucinations as if they are real. This obviously shows that the appointed cure only serves to fortify the minor illness.The negative qualities of the rehabilitation regimen cause her to go insane. “I am getting angry enough to do something desperate. To jump out of the window would be admirable exercise” Towards the end of the story,...
