The Yellow Wallpaper

Towards the end of the story the protagonist being the woman who is telling this story becomes so obsessed with this wallpaper it basically consumes her whole life. John was very controlling of her and kept her in that room and just wanted her to get rest. I think after so many weeks of isolation and focusing on that wallpaper she lost it and did what she had to, she ripped the paper off the wall. She told John “it is no use, young man, you can’t open it” (Gilman,378), this is where the story really changes as she uses her words to cut him just as he had done to her and this is where who controls who changes in the story.
The story really starts to shift when she refers to the wallpaper as a “fungus” (Gilman,372), she is starting to change her mind about that wallpaper and from then on everything is changing about that wallpaper. She sees a woman in the wallpaper who is trying to get it, that woman is representing herself feeling trapped. She has lost her mind.
I think the house in general upsets narrator, everywhere in that house is a constant reminder of that wallpaper, she referred to it as a fungus, she says it has a smell to it that fills every room in the house she goes to. I believe that wallpaper has taken over her, she is so consumed by it and that’s why she wanted to get rid of it in the end of the story.