"The paint
and paper look as if a boys' school had used
it. ""One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns
committing every artistic sin.""There is a recurrent spot
where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside
down.""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."The wall-paper, as I said before, is torn off in
spots,
The narrator is a
female whose husband and doctor are controlling her to the point that she is slowly
going mad. She watches the yellow wallpaper everyday. It is torn off in spots and
irritates her. The wallpaper pattern is not described so much as her perception of how
she sees it as being almost a living thing.
As her stay in
the room progress over the summer, her mental health deteriorates. She sees the
wallpaper growing like a fungus.
"The outside pattern is a
florid arabesque, reminding one of a fungus."
The woman
spends almost everyday in bed in the room. She and her husband are in the house for
three months.
" Still, I don't wonder he acts so, sleeping
under this paper for three
months."
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