cell than a room. She begins to see patterns in the wallpaper; she is obsessed with trying to find what the pattern is about and what meaning it holds. Being in the room all day, not being allowed to go out, she had all the time in the world to think about the pattern in the wallpaper. She makes a conclusion that the wall symbolizes a woman behind a cell. During the daytime, she sees the woman in the wallpaper creeping up and down the long shaded lane. She also sees the woman creeping in the garden. Much similar to what the woman in the wallpaper does, the main character creeps: “I always lock the door when I creep by daylight” (479). In the end, she rips up the wallpaper to help the woman in the wall become free; in reality she is freeing herself from her husband. “I’ve got out at last, ‘said I,’ in spite of you and Jane? And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back!” (481)Forbidden to write or think, given a set schedule, and treated like a child; the woman becomes unstable. She obsesses about the yellow wallpaper, in which she sees frightful patterns and an imprisoned female figure trying to escape. The woman finally escapes from her controlling husband in a final rage of insanity as she peels the wallpaper off and locks her husband out of the room....
