As the narrator begins with her adventure she describes the house as a beautiful place. ... Her husband explains that all the rooms down stairs were unexcitable because they only have one window and not enough room to fit two beds. ... As the narrator spends more time in the top room of the colonial house the paper begins to prey on her more and more. ... She states the smell of the paper creeps all over the house; "hovering in the dinning room, skulking in the parlor, hiding in the hall, lying in wait for me on the stairs (282)." ... She says she sees her creeping all around the house up and ...

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• Grade Level: High School

She, on the other hand, doubts the necessity of such a move and wonders if the mysterious house is haunted. ... She even suggests that his indifference to her opinions on the house and her illness keeps her from getting well faster. ... Against her wishes, John decides that he and his wife will sleep in the attic room of the house, which at one point may have been a nursery. ... There is even a gate at the top of the stairs. ... The story's climactic scene occurs as their stay in the rented house is coming to a close. ...

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...it creeps all over the house. I find it hovering in the dining-room, sulking in the parlor, hiding in the hall, lying in wait for me on the stairs...I wake up in the night and find it hanging over me...But now I am used to it" (603). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The woman in the wallpaper is imprisoned in the domestic sphere, in which women are expected only to clean the house and take care of the children. ... The exterior of the mansion is described as a series of closed-off sections, while the room she rests in, with its numerous barred windows and immovable bed, was probably formerly used to house an insane inhabitant. ... It creeps all over the house. I find it hovering in the dining room, sulking in the parlor, hiding in the hall, lying in wait for me on the stairs" (584). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Because she is being forced to stay in the attic of the old house, she is also being kept, figuratively, in the "attic" of her mind (Twentieth 111). ... Bechelard goes so far as to say that the house can be seen as a small version of the world and the social problems that burden it (Twentieth 110). ... While describing her room and surroundings, she makes the reader suspicious when she mentions barred windows and nailed down beds, but the gate at the top of the stairs and rings on the wall go beyond suspicion (Kennedy and Gioia 426,429). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

If he changed the wallpaper, next "it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then the gate at the head of the stairs, and so on." (186) The one thing she detested the most about the room was the yellow corruptly sculpted wallpaper, that she described as looking "as if a boys" school had used it," (185) showing the wear and tear of such an adolescent's touch. ... In her last days at the house, she fails to figure out the wall's purpose and shreds it of its paper leaving it bare. ...

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The narrator describes the smell that comes from the wallpaper in her bedroom as hovering in the dining-room skulking in the parlor, hiding in the hall, lying in wait for me on the stairs Even when I go to ride, if I turn my head suddenly and surprise it-there is that smell! ... And that is all the femininity she needs" and "The labor of women in the house, certainly enables men to produce more wealth that he otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. ...

• Word Count: 1862
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• Grade Level: High School