Yellow Wallpaper
... It is the wallpaper, alive and a character in itself, that charges our main characters mind and helps her break free from the dull and husband driven life she has been living. The wallpaper itself, so marvelously described, becomes our storytellers best enemy and best friend. More like a mirror, this yellow consuming wallpaper reflects what our main character is really going through and feeling and the woman that stirs and creeps within the wall is literally herself which is found out by us, the readers, when the housekeeper mentions the yellow stains on all of her clothes. She wants to tear the confining wallpaper down that holds this imaginary woman in just as she wants to tear the confining way of life her husband has chosen for her.