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In the beginning of the story, the author continuously talks of the wallpaper as being a hideous creation. ?One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin.? (pg. 107). She talks about being able to see two different patterns in the paper as well, one behind the other. In the ?back pattern? she sees a figure of a woman who is desperately trying to escape the bars formed by the ?front pattern?. ?This wall-paper has a kind of sub-pattern in a different shade, a particularly irritating one, for you can only see it in certain lights?I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about behind that sill and conspicuous front design.? (pg. 110). Numerous hours of being kept in her room and being surrounded by the wallpaper, has enabled out author the chance to study the wall in great detail. She finds that the paper some what represents her, and her life. As in the wallpaper, our author is being kept down and made helpless by her husband, or the front design. She sees this, and that is why at the end the author, is ripping down the wallpaper, in order to help this lady be rid of a
ny male dominance and allow her to live her own life filled with her own decisions. In the time that this story was written, treating women as John did would be considered reasonable, but ?present day? women would not take that sort of treatment and many would stand up and fight for equal rights, which many do. By doing some ?on the side? homework I found that the women in the time that this story was written were so pressured, especially there husbands, to look and act a certain way, to always listen to what the ?man? says. These kinds of things were stressed onto the woman so much that many took their lives because they could not handle the pressure. Obviously the main theme of this story was about equal rights between men and woman; and in the story there were some key symbols, which led you in that direction. John, our author?s husband, places many restrictions on his wife due to her condition of being mentally ill. One can see any loving husband do this to his wife, especially when she is sick, but John does not even seem to listen to his wife?s continuous pleas to move her from the room with the horrid wallpaper. John ju
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, front pattern, pattern pattern, equal rights, front pattern pattern, pattern figure woman, figure woman, story written, front design, pg 107, trying escape, pattern figure,
Approximate Word count = 771
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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