herrelease, accommodating her, her writing and her thoughts. These two activities evolve becauseof the fact that she is kept in the house. One specific characteristic of the house that symbolizesnot only her potential but also her trapped feeling is the window. Traditionally this symbolrepresents a view of possibilities, but now it also becomes a view to what she does not want tosee. Through it she sees all that she could be and everything that she could have. But she saysnear the end, “I don’t like to look out of the windows even - there are so many of those creepingwomen, and they creep so fast”. She knows that she has to hide and lie low; she has to creep inorder to be a part of society and she does not want to see all the other women who have to do thesame because she knows they are a reflection of herself. “Most women do not creep bydaylight,” expresses the fact that they need to hide in the shadows; they try to move withoutbeing seen. The window is no longer a gateway for her; she can not enter to the other side of it,literally, because John will not let her, (there are bars holding her in), but also because that worldwill not belong to her. She will still be controlled and be forced to stifle her self expression. Shewill still be forced to creep. More immediate to facilitating her metamorphosis than the houseitself is the room she is in and the characteristics of that room, the most important being theyellow wallpaper which also plays a double role: it has the ability to trap her in with its intricacyof pattern that leads her to no satisfying end, bars that hold in and separate the woman in thewallpaper from her. But it also sets her free. She describes the wallpaper as being the worst thingshe has ever seen she says that “the color is repellant, almost revolting; a smoldering uncleanyellow, strangely faded by the slow turning sun.” She is stuck in this room and the only thingshe has that...
