This story was very intriguing, almost like a horror story. “ The yellow wall paper,” is about a woman who is suffering from depression, i take it after having a child, and is staying in a house temporarily with her husband who is a physician. They stay in a room where the wallpaper is yellow.
The women writes in her journal of how she is feeling, but mostly about this ugly wallpaper. She starts to hallucinate that there is a woman in the walls who moves the wallpaper mostly at night. I believe the woman she sees is actually herself, trapped like the woman in the walls. She describes herself being the woman and tears the wallpaper in the end, hoping to be set herself free. I believe the wallpaper signifies her own feelings of being trapped, her depression taking over, she tries anything to be free of this emotional pain.
