. Everything thing she wishes is controlled by her husband. Now the husband is a symbols of the societal constraints which are slowly slowly suffocating her she is prohibited from not only writing and meeting people but from everything and because of all these things we can assume how much darker her shadow would be turning. With every passing moment her detest for the wallpaper increases but them comes a time when she starts to accept her surrounding her perspective towards the wallpaper changes she says, “I’m getting fond of the room in spite of the paper. Perhaps because of the wallpaper. It dwells on my mind”. She is drawn to a pattern on the wallpaper that looks like “ a broken neck and two upside down eyes” looking at her. She starts …show more content…
With progress of the story the progress of the shadow can also be seen clearly. Now at this point it can also be seen that as she is unable to write she has directed all of the creative ability and strength to the wallpaper. The wallpaper has replaced her journal and now. At one point in the story she also calls it a “ paper” and not a “ wallpaper” which further shows that the wallpaper functions similarly as the paper for the narrator. This is the reason why it is suggested that the shadow should not be completely suffocated because as it is also the house of vigour, vitality, creativity which are positive traits and once they are suppressed these positive traits starts to find the ways to overpower the person in a negative way. Had not John abandoned her from writing the end of the story would have been different because her unconscious would have been in her control but now she has started to imagine a woman bind the bars on the wallpaper. The narrator notices that the pattern gets different in day time than the night. It is the night when her shadow becomes more powerful because night is the time for the unconscious …show more content…
She sleeps most of the daytime and at nights she entertains herself with the wallpaper and its patterns in doing so she discovers that that women in the wallpaper shakes the bar at night as if she wants to free herself from the encagement. She also believes that she has seen the woman behind the bars outside hiding from people. She wants nobody to find her “nobody shall find it out but myself” now to help the woman to get out the narrator helps her by peeling off the paper. She locks the door to the nursery and throws the key down into the front path. She wants to astonish John by capturing the woman in the wallpaper and proving that her delusions are real. She has a rope to tie up the woman in case she tries to get away. The narrator continues to strip off the wallpaper, but she cannot reach high up along the wall, and she cannot move the bed to help her. She pulls off what she can reach, and hears within the pattern the "strangled heads and bulbous eyes and fungus growths...shriek with derision." Frustrated and angry, the narrator wants to jump out the window, but the bars are solid, and she realizes that an action like that might be