The Yellow Wallpaper

At the end of the story, "The Yellow Wallpaper", by Charlotte Perkins Gilman the narrator who we may know or may not know as Jane has become hopeless. She is starting to think that she is a part of the wallpaper and is living in it. She thinks that she too is one of the many women who are escaping out of the yellow wallpaper. She refers to her freedom from the paper and her husband as well as the life she was living in the passage "I've got out at last," said I, "in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!" (378). She feels as if she was forced to live this life that led her to insanity. Throughout the story she starts off as somewhat sane and refers to surroundings as any person would do. She is very descriptive and hopeful in her passages, especially "There is a delicious garden! I never saw such a garden--large and shady, full of box-bordered paths, and lines with long grape-covered arbors with seats under them" (367). Then as the story continues to progress she becomes to be more weak and negative, having no hope little by little. What was once a middle-class optimist woman, she now is a weak, despairing pessimist. At the end she is simply existent in her mind. Nothing around her matters anymore and she too, body and soul is starting to dwindle. So many things bother the narrator about the house, room and surroundings that abide her. She first off does not understand as to how they couldv'e afforded this summer house, she thinks it could be haunted. She also notices a smell that surrounds her and believes it is coming out of the yellow wallpaper. She begins to become fond of it but in the end she believes as if the yellow wallpaper has swallowed her whole and she finally escaped and she ripped it down. She is very aware of her surroundings and how they began to encompass her. This story makes you feel like you are in there with her and suffocating as she tries to escape.