"The Yellow Wallpaper" was a very different story. In reading, I came to one conclusion, and that is that the woman (narrator) is in a mental hospital or facility. John is her doctor and so is Jennie. She metions that they are physicians, but it is in her head that they become her family. The bed is nailed down and there are bars on the window. The woman is clearly mentally unstable.
The majority of the beginning of this story deals with the daily norms for the narrator; how she has to take pills, she is kept to her room. The people walking out in the gardens could be other patients as well as nurses and doctors. She cannot have visitors because she is not well.
As the story progresses, the woman's condition seems to worsen as she starts to see people come out of the walls. The fixation of the woman on the wallpaper is very similar to the fixation of the eye in Edgar Allan Poe's "A Tell-Tale Heart."
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