"I wonder if they all come out of that wall-paper as I did?" by

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In Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," the narrator's subconcious sense of entrapment is revealed through her delusions.

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"Then in the very bright spots she keeps still, and in the very shady spots she just takes hold of the bars and shakes them hard." (7)

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"To jump out the window would be admirable exercise, but the bars are too strong even to try." (9)

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The narrator feels caged by her barred-window room, and therefore imagines a woman trapped behind bars in the wallpaper.

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"I did write for a while in spite of them; but it does exhaust me a good deal - having to be too sly about it or else meet with heavy opposition."

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"It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight."

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The narrator feels like she is always being watched by her captors. This paranoia is channelled into her mirage of a woman who has to creep around to escape notice.

CONCLUSION

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The woman's desire to escape her prison is exsposed through her hallucinations.

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Annie, Maria

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