Significantly, however, he is still blocking his wife, literally and symbolically obstructing her path so that she has to “creep over him every time!” (36).
In an ironic reversal in the final scene, John breaks into the room and, after witnessing the full measure of his wife’s insanity, faints. In the penultimate scene, the narrator’s identity merges with that of the entrapped woman, and together they frantically tear the paper from the walls. The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 165,126 ratings, 4.11 average rating, 10,567 reviews Open Preview The Yellow Wall-Paper Quotes Showing 1-26 of 26 But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way it is such a relief But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.
The paper both intrigues and repels her it becomes the medium on which she symbolically inscribes her “text.” Soon she detects a subpattern in the wallpaper that crystallizes into the image of an imprisoned woman attempting to escape. Deprived of the freedom to write openly, which she believes would be therapeutic, the narrator gradually shifts her attention to the yellow wallpaper in the attic nursery where she spends her time. So severe is the narrator’s depression that a nursemaid has assumed care of the new baby. As the story unfolds, it becomes apparent that she is suffering an acute form of postpartum depression, a condition acknowledged neither by John nor by the late-19th-century medical community. These diary entries compose the text of the story they reveal the narrator’s emotional descent.
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