I believe this story is about a woman fighting with her closely controlled life which she can relate to the yellow wallpaper in the nursery bedroom. She is not allowed to work or write because she is sick with “nervousness” (Perkins Stetson 649). Her husband John, micromanages her because he is a physician and thinks he knows what is best for her, which she does not agree with really anything he has to say. When he is gone during the day and some nights she loses herself in her journal writing as well as the mesmerizing yellow wall-paper. She says at night the woman behind the first layer of wallpaper can be free and at night when the moonlight hits she is behind bars and upset. I think bars resemble John, he is constantly telling her no