The first I read this story I was kind of confused towards the ending. It just shocked me that all this time the narrator looked at the wall paper she just became deranged. I have to wonder if her "illness" is actually due to the wall paper or was she really ill? I truly feel that her illness is due and was due to the wall paper because in the end, she became deranged and was hallucinating about seeing women crawling and trying to come out of the wallpaper, she also started to act like those women. Also, I feel that if her husband had made her write down what she was experiencing, then maybe she would have been cured.
Why was he acting so weird to her when she would tell him about the wallpaer? I think its because he knew what was going on because at one point she caught him and his sister studying the wallpaper just as she did. He was just being way too controlling with her. I think he purposely put her in that room because he knew eventually something was going to happen to her. Why couldn't he just listen to her made made her visit her cousins?
Since he felt nothing was wrong with her then there was really no reason for her to be in that hidious room. By seeing that wallpaper over and over again on a daily basis, I truly feel that anyone would go crazy! It's just like being tortured! My question is was she really one of those women stuck in the pictures or was she just deranged to begin with? I'm not too sure what to think about this question at all.
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Since her husband forbid her to write down her feelings, consider her imaginative involvement with the wallpaper as her "creative" outlet/therapy. Rather than thinking the wallpaper "caused" her illness, try studying if for what it reveals about the character's conflicts (see also comments on Angyl's blog).
Also, Jamaican Girl, please email me your actual name, since I can't track attendance, assign points, etc. otherwise.
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