While mental illness may be a little subtler in Montressor's case, it is a prominent theme in Charlotte Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper. ... We see the narrator, while being kept in isolation, slowly lose her mind over time. ... Because her husband is condescending to her, she is not able to confide in him about her obsession with the wallpaper, ultimately leading to her psychotic break. The bedroom the narrator was staying in – with bars on the windows and a chained-down bed – resembled a prison. ... In the end we see the narrator believe that she actually came from the wa...

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