Blog 2 The Yellow Wallpaper

At the end of The Yellow Wallpaper I finally understood what was happening or at least my interpretation of what was happening. The woman says, “And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back!” (497) which leads me to believe that she has become the wallpaper. She is saying that she is the wallpaper and is not going to deal with this any longer

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There are many more references to her being the wallpaper throughout the story. After she addresses the wallpaper as being a woman she then proceeds to see that woman outside her window. She says, “I can see her out of every one of my windows!” (494). I read this as it was her shadow that she continued to see out of her window. This could be the case with her seeing the woman at night in the wallpaper, which may have been her own shadow that she saw if a light was turned on where it would cast a shadow.She also describes the woman from the wallpaper "creeping around" and in the end of the story she describes herself as creeping around the room. Was there even another woman or was it just herself who was creeping around the entire time, the other woman could have just been in her mind or her own reflection.

In the end why did John faint? He must have seen the signs leading up to this, how could he have been that shocked? It almost seemed like he was so shocked that it was the first time he had seen his wife in a while and everything else was a figment of her imagination.