A Room Defines Who We Are

When I first read the Yellow Wallpaper, I thought the narrator was crazy when she is talking about how much she hated the nursery and the wallpaper, "I never saw a worse paper in my life."(1) She explains how she is glad her baby is happy because she is not in the nursery looking at the ugly wallpaper. Even little boys ripped it off the wall it was so ugly. Her dream room is, "one downstairs that opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such a pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings!"(1) As I was first reading this I was wondering, why does it matter so much, a room is room.
Then I started to look around my dorm room and see how everything matched. I reflected back on the beginning of August and how I looked through hundreds of magazines, and had plenty trips to the store to make the perfect space for here. Also I remembered how I yelled at my mother in six grade because I wanted to paint my room purple with white shining stars and she would not allow it. At the time I thought the purple with the white shining stars defined me. I think the narrator is trying to tell us that a room defines who we are.
At this time, the narrator is in the middle of depression so everything she is writing is a reflection of her unhappiness. But when you read the description of what she wants for her room, "opened on the piazza, and had roses all over the window" you can find out who she really is. You can tell that even though she is sad right now, the narrator truly is a happy person.
I also think the room she is in now is contributing to her depression. She hates everything about it, and complains about the room all the time. If she was in her happy room, with roses everywhere I think she could have a better vibe around her that would make her better.
So why are rooms so important? They define you. When someone walks into the room and looks around it, they will learn a little more about you as a person. The narrator can't give anyone that chance because is in a room that she hates, she is not in her dream room.