inions. She also points out how John thinks that his wife is incompetent. John also refers to her as a "little girl" which is the exact attitude that he takes when dealing with her. He never trusts her to take care of herself, and he does not trust her with the child as he thinks that she is not capable of handling her own child. Snyder also stresses this point "John's presence and access to the bedroom is enough to complicate matter and force us to question whether the narrator is indeed writing in secret. What is it, then, to write in a privatized space that is subject to a constant watch? Let us also ask what John's presence represents, for I would argue that John's surveillance compromises the integrity of the journal as female writing. Can the journal, for example, exist outside of phallocentric order of language? Is the journal a male text? If this is indeed the case, John is not only a reader of his own script, but very much its audience-- present both in and directly outside of the bedroom" (Snyder, 1999). Snyder stresses over the fact that the narrator does not feel the freedom to write. She is not allowed to write and she continuously hides her writing from her husband in order to prevent him from getting angry. The narrator is clearly afraid of her husband The fear however cannot keep her mind from being free. The narrator cannot shut her thoughts down. She finds ways to express them and she finds ways to free herself. To her the wallpaper is like a pattern which is the reason for imprisonment of many women. In the beginning she starts seeing a woman behind the wallpaper, trying to get out. She is comparing her life to the one of the woman behind the wallpaper. As time goes by she actually thinks that she is the one stuck behind the newspaper. T he woman behind the newspaper is stuck there behind the jail created by the pattern. The woman and many other women cannot get out at all times, but only during the day when none is a...
