he paper's "lifelines" and brings another consciousness into the bedroom (the introduction of the audience seems to defy the deadness of the paper)". The narrator is extremely lonely, not in a physical sense, but in a emotional sense. She does not have anyone to express her feelings to so she uses the audience to narrate to and she does it by the means of the paper. She makes continuous efforts during her stay in the house to express her real feelings to her husband, but she keeps being disregarded. For example, she hated the room that was given to her, and she rather have the room downstairs, but she was completely ignored and the room that her husband had liked is the room that she had to live in. Disregarding her feelings about many things which were important to her happen along the course of the whole story. The incidences of the wallpaper, bedroom and the suggestion of her visit to her cousin- they were all ignored and the ones that were followed were all john's decisions. Snyder expresses similar feelings in her paper "John continually dismisses the narrator, saying, "You really are better, dear, whether you can see it or not. I am a doctor, dear, and I Know" John trivializes her and reduces the narrator to "his darling and his comfort" who must take care of herself "for [John's] sake". It would seem as if the narrator never answers John on her own terms. But there are those moments when the narrator answers John by not speaking at all, when, in the same way she chooses to write-- "I don't know why I should write this. . . . But I must say what I feel and think in some way"-- she chooses to close her journal and fall silent" (Snyder, 1999). The narrator gives up trying to communicate her feelings to John, but in the end she surmises, which is what leads her on to look for another source to express herself, writing being one. Such a treatment from John also causes her to feel controlled. The fact that she is being controlled is cl...
