![]() ![]() After a week, she manages to keep a secret diary, and her notes accompany the reader along the path of her madness as she develops an obsession for the yellow paper and spends more and more time looking at the flamboyant patterns on it.Īs weeks go by, the narrator plunges deeper into her obsession while a sub-patterns emerges from the wallpaper revealing a woman trapped behind: “by daylight she is subdued, quiet” (Perkins Gilman 6) but she struggles to come out from the wall at night. The narrator, however, feels that she would benefit from fresh air, as well as from physical and mental exercise. ![]() John’s sister, Jennie, takes care of the house, and the protagonist is eventually forced to a life of confinement in the estate’s nursery. He prescribes complete rest and refraining from any activity. The woman suffers from nervous postpartum depression, and it happens that John is also her physician. The story develops in a summer estate, where the narrator and her husband, John, are spending their vacation. ![]()
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