The Yellow Wallpaper is about a woman who is forced by her husband to live in a room with intoxicating wallpaper. The Yellow Wallpaper is written in first person point of view of a woman named Jane. Her family, her husband, and her daughter, had to move into a temporary house. Jane's husband had her stay in a room- with bars on the window and hideous yellow wallpaper. Jane at first hates the room and wishes John would let her leave. As she battles with her thoughts on the wallpaper she comes to be obsessed with it. Jane slowly goes crazy while living in the room, but in the way she discovers herself and the need to free herself from her unlovingly marriage. Symbolism is the best way for the reader to understand what Jane is going through, and how she will overcome the struggles that come in her way when she truly finds herself.…show more content… The wallpaper represents her relationship. She is so blindly trying to escape her marriage. “ I never saw so much expression in an inanimate thing before, and we all know how much expression they have! I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store. “(2.70) When the wallpaper is on, she sees it, smells it everywhere. She knows how toxic it is but he can't get out- connecting to her relationship because her relationship was intoxicating, yet addictive and she had been
