Response Question #2

In the end of story, the women seems to grow deeper into a pessimism within her mentality. She is challenged with reality throughout the whole story. This seems to grow more and more as the story moves on, at first it seems that she is not paranoid with just seeing the wallpaper with patterns that seem to bug her. But as she moves on, she seems to see a person jump out of the wall. Within herself she sees herself as part of the wall, being shackled which makes her more an more deeper in depression. She is a very paranoid person and even mentions once not trusting her own husband and sister in law, her housekeeper. This makes the story very depressing at time, but in the end they do end up leaving the home after their house is complete. At first she hates the home but after awhile she grows to love it because she grows with the women coming out of the wall. So in her own mind she is growing with herself, but in all reality she is losing herself.

In the end of the story she is quoted saying "I've got out at last, in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!". This is almost the women stating that she has freed herself but really she has shackled herself mentally even farther. It's almost like schizophrenia, with thinking of something that's there like a voice and thinking you can achieve it but in the process you break your families physically and mentally. It's a heart breaking experience that affects everyone and in the end no one wins.