Throughout the story the narrator writes about the wallpaper as being a grotesque yellow and she wishes to be moved to another room, but as she keeps writing her feelings change about the wallpaper it starts to grow on her. When she first arrives at the mansion and enters her the nursery she describes the wallpaper as being "almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight," which illustrates she despises it and makes the assumption that the children before must have hated it.
When two weeks have passed she writes about her condition and mentions the baby. It made me think when it said "It is fortunate Mary is so good with the baby. Such a dear baby! And yet I cannot be with him, it makes me so nervous." When it emphasized the word cannot, I thought of postpartum depression, which is a condition woman get after they have a baby. Woman with this condition can get suicidal depressed and may even result to extremes of wanting to kill their......
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