"The Yellow Wallpaper"

In "The Yellow Wallpaper" the main character is telling the story; she has some sort of illness though we never know what it is. I personally think that she is not going insane, I believe that the narrator is just looking for a way out of something and just trying to find the old her. She repeatedly states in the story that many of the things that she does is because her husband wants her to. For example, she wanted their bedroom to be down stairs in the house but he refused and now it is upstairs just like he wanted it to be. The woman in the wallpaper is symbolic because she is trapped and cannot escape, just like how the narrator is trapped in her life just going along and doing what her husband wants her to. She said that during the day the woman in the wallpaper is free and can go about but it is not until night time that she gets trapped into the wallpaper. This is important because during the day the narrator is ‘free’ because her husband is at work, she can do the things that she enjoys and it is not until her husband gets home that she starts to feel trapped because things always have to go his way. When the narrator starts to rip of the wallpaper it makes he look insane but she just really wants to not be so controlled by her husband. It is not until she finished the job of taking the wallpaper off the wall that she starts to feel ‘free’ again. At the end of the story the narrator say “…you can’t put me back,” (Gilmore 18). This leads me to believe that the old narrator is back, the one who does things for herself not only because he husband has told her to, she does not feel trapped by him any longer and does not intend to every fall like that again.