The Yellow Wallpaper

While reading The Yellow Wallpaper, I couldn't help but notice that the narrator had quite the imagination. Thus, I instantly perceived her of being a tad on the crazy side and as the story progressed it was further demonstrated how her imagination was slowly consuming her from within. This was constantly being displayed by her descriptions of the yellow wallpaper along with the flashback of how she perceived objects as a child. The narrator has this idea that the wallpaper was constantly changing as the light changed, which I believe has to do with the changes of her emotions during the different phases of the day. This was drawn from the idea that during the day she was forbidden to use her imagination, which is why she can only see the woman behind the wallpaper at night because it's during that time she can use her imagination. The yellow wallpaper appears to symbolize a "wall" that is used to repress her imagination, which she later breaks down by peeling off almost all the wallpaper. At the end of the story, the narrator says, "I've got out at last", said I, "in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!" (15). This concluding quote in the story lead me to believe that her imagination had now taken on a form of its own and that "Jane" was her former self that was trying to repress her imagination from getting out of hand.