What does the narrator’s description of the wallpaper in "The Yellow Wallpaper" reveal about her worldview? She feels a great deal of pressure to behave a certain way, as if everyone is always watching her. She does not like interacting with people because they aren’t able to understand the wallpaper. She feels overpowered by everyone in her life, which is why she is refusing to see her family. She feels that her needs are well taken care of by her husband and other members of her family.
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The narrator suffers from temporary nervous depression according to her husband and for her safe treatment, her husband confined the narrator into a single room and asked her to rest as much as possible. But by remaining confined in a single room, she became indefinitely uncomfortable. The room has yellow wallpaper and the narrator was really obsessed with that wallpaper and convinced that there’s a woman trapped within that wallpaper. She decided to free the woman by ripping off the wallpaper. When her husband, who was a doctor by profession watched her in that state, he fainted but narrator paid no attention to that and continued creeping around the room.
In the “ yellow wallpaper” the narrator is confined to a to with a yellow wallpaper while recovering from a disease.
However she feels like someone else is trapped within that wallpaper, which might be a projection of her own helpless state.
She tears the wallpaper in an effort to free the women.
When the husband and the doctor see her in this state they are unable to comprehend her impression about the yellow wallpaper.