“I quite enjoy the room, now it is bare again (Gillman 655).” The narrator is disgusted by the wallpaper at first writing that she has never seen uglier and more horrible paper in her life and should hate it if she has to live in that room long. Angry with the impertinence of the wallpaper, saying that the absurd and unblinking eyes are everywhere, the narrator is compelled to study it and then write descriptions about how it appears, down to the smallest detail. She starts examining the wallpaper, noticing how the patterns form the “eye” that seem to be staring at her. Then she sees a woman creeping behind the pattern. The narrator’s mood starts to improve because she now has something which she can look forward to. She no longer wants to leave until she finds out the secret of the wallpaper. “The wallpaper symbolizes every human being´s need to have the freedom and ability to create, write, enjoy nature, breathe fresh air and to do whatever a person is interested in. And it symbolizes also the domestic situation which many 19th-century women found themselves trapped in and could not get out of (Sigurðardóttir 27).” Due to the restrictions back in the time, the narrator wants to free the shadow woman from the wallpaper and overthrow this feudal