I'm sure I would go crazy too if I was confined in a nursery with a nailed down bed. The Yellow Wallpaper is such an interesting piece and it is so intriguing to try and put the pieces of the narrator's puzzle together. First of all, I don't believe there is anything wrong with the narrator at first. She has a nervous personality because her husband is controlling and she does not have any control over her own life. The narrator says so herself, "John is a physician, and perhaps...that is one reason I do not get well faster." I think this quote is the basis for the entire short story. The way that the narrator strives to obey and satisfy her husband is shocking to me. The fact that the narrator didn't even feel that it was okay for her to write while trapped in this room disturbs me, the entire time reading I just wanted her to gain more confidence.

I think it is because of the limitations of the nursery and her husband that the narrator begins to see a woman in the wallpaper. The wallpaper begins as a nuisance to the narrator, and she repeatedly describes how it bothers her. But it is no wonder she builds a character out of the wallpaper, the narrator is lonely and in need of company. The task of tearing down the wallpaper is a way for the narrator to become occupied and it begins to build her confidence, so much so that she locks everyone out of the room in an effort to keep the woman of the wallpaper around.

The woman in the wallpaper helps make the narrator better but also consumes the narrator in the end when she begins saying that she herself is coming out of the wallpaper. This part throws me for a loop. How do these pieces go together? The only answer I have is that the narrator finds that she is her own only companion, everyone else just traps her in a room.