Creepy Sensations

After I finished reading Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" I had a horrible eery feeling. I found it the ending so strange and creepy, we knew this girl was mental but I was not expecting her to get so caught up in the wallpaper. Those last lines "...In spite of you and Jane? And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back. Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!" She's gone mad! She calls her sister in-law Jane instead of Jennie, which is what she calls her throughout the story. She has let this wallpaper get so far into her mind that she believes she is the woman trapped inside the wallpaper. Maybe she feels like she is trapped inside this house or inside her own mind. But she goes on in the story about how the woman creeps around in the day, but is trapped in the room at night. Exactly how she is free to roam around in the day time but locked in the room at night. I think its very interesting how she goes on writing while in her condition, the style she writes in is very choppy and sort of all over the place with her thoughts at first. But later she focus' only on the wallpaper and how she needs to free the girl inside.

The last lines she suggests that her husband was trying to keep her locked in this room or away from life. Yet now she has escaped and has set herself free. I found it a little humorous how she asks why her husband fainted, imagine the scene a grown woman crawling around and around on the floor up against the wall, what a sight! When I read this I immediately thought of the movie 'The Grudge', where this crazy ghost lady crawls around looking totally demented. It's a very scary image.

The thing i found most interesting about this story is how they refer to the room as a nursery. Why would a bed be nailed down in a child's play room? It makes me think that she was not in a nursery, but in a room previously used to house mental patients. She describes how some of the paper is torn off and how the bed is bitten, she even mentions the scratch around the wall and how it seemed someone had crawled along it before. The bars on the windows resemble the bars she sees in the wallpaper, holding the woman inside them. Is it possible that this woman is not the first person to go crazy in this room? I found this piece very disturbing, and feel horrible for Gilman if this is how she felt on a day to day basis!