This story is about a woman who slowly goes crazy on account of her hideous wall paper. She is actually "sick" when she comes to stay at the house with the terrible wallpaper, but it seems that her obsession with the it is what allows her to jump of the edge. It is quiet clear not to far into the story that her fixation with this wall paper is making it come alive before her very eyes, even before she says so herself.
" There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down. I get positively angry with the impertinence of it and the everlastingness. Up and down and sideways they crawl, and those absurd, unblinking eyes are everywhere There is one place where two breaths didn't match, and the eyes go all up and down the line, one a little higher than the other."
She begins early on in the story to describe the wallpaper with human like features. She uses such human metaphors and similes that when she actually does start to believe that the wall paper is alive it takes a second for you to catch on. When she says "the woman behind it ( the wallpaper) shakes it." its like whoa when did she actually say she thought the paper was alive! I like this story it is very descriptive and at times a mind bender but it gives a very good insight into the characters mind and kept me captivated both times I read it.
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