The yellow Wallpaper

I believe that at the end of The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator succumbs to her disease. If I put myself in the shoes that she was wearing during the story, I would say that the oppression that she feeling around her from he husband, John, paved the way for this to happen. I don't want to label her as crazy, but I do want to say that she found her "out" from her illness and the feelings that she felt inside, and that just happened to be out of the wallpaper.

The plot for the Yellow Wallpaper first started to make it's shift on page 371 in the first sentence of the 94th sentence. The narrator says, " I'm getting really quite fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper, perhaps because of the wallpaper." This changes the story line in that the narrator is no longer seething with hatred at the wallpaper, she is growing accustomed to looking at it, and even starts to desire to look at it! Another plot shift in the story in on page 384, sentence 160, "The fact is i'm getting a little afraid of John," She turns her feelings around for John because of that yellow wallpaper. As she begins to imagine that John and Jennie are trying to steal her puzzle, she gets very suspicious and afraid of them!

In response to the third question on page 378, there are many things that upset the narrator about the house and ground and room. To kick things off, on thing that she didn't like about that grounds was that they had been unoccupied so long, as she says on page 366 in sentence 4, "Else, why should it be let so cheaply?And stood so long untenanted?" The greenhouses were long since broken, there were no people milling about. The room, of course had that yellow wallpaper! It had many other flaws to it as well. The bed was unkempt and looked like it had gone through a war and there floor was rippling, but the narrator felt as if she could handle this, just not that yellow wallpaper!