zarre (strikingly out of theordinary) feelings and behavior. She illustrates this behavior by constantcrying for no apparent reason. I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time(Barrett 196). The wallpaper seems to continuously dwell her mind, which isbizarre in itself, because no one should by obsessed over nonsense thingslike wallpaper. It dwells my mind so (Barrett 196)! The protagonist alsostarts to become unusually weak... half the time now I am awfully lazy, andlie down ever so much (Barrett 197). She continued to demonstrate herbizarre behavior when she said, this bed will not move! I tried to lift andpush it until I was lame, and then I got so angry I bit off a little piece at onecorner-but it hurt my teeth (Barrett 203). She even contemplates jumping outof the window... I am getting angry enough to do something desperate. Tojump out of the window would be and admirable exercise, but the bars aretoo strong even to try (Barrett 204).Towards the end of the story the protagonist reaches complete mentalinstability. At this point the protagonist has reached the worst part of herdisorder. She presents this instability when she says, I wonder if they comeout of the wallpaper as I did (Barrett 204). At this time she is confusingreality with her imagination. I suppose I shall have to get back behind thepattern when it comes night, and that is hard (Barrett 204)! The main reasonof this statement isnt just her madness, but it is how she feels. Theprotagonist feels that she can be herself during the day when John is notaround, but at night she has to pretend to be a totally different person. At the end of the story John and Jennie become aware of what is going onwith her. What is the matter? he cried. For Gods sake, what are youdoing! I kept on creeping just the same, but I looked at himover my shoulder. Ive got out at last said I, In spite of youand Jane. And Ive pulled off most of the paper, so you cantput me back! No ...
