The thesis in this story is that women don’t have to follow the societal stereotype and marry early or at all, they can do what they want with their life. She explained how the wallpaper had scratches all over as if “boys school had used it.” She continues to say how ugly the wallpaper is saying “I never saw a worse paper in my life” and “one of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin.” She wanted to john to redew the wallpaper, but john said that she’s letting her imagination get the best of her.
She continues to show her displeasure towards the wallpaper. The room that she was in had hideous wallpaper that she hated so much she wanted to move downstairs, however John, her husband wouldn’t let her. She was diagnosed with temporary nervous depression. He takes care of her in the house, but he tells all of her loved ones that she will be fine and that she isn’t really sick. The narrator was moved into an old abandoned nursery home by her husband who is also her physician. It finishes with the last day of the treatment and John is coming back to check on her. The message for change starts when she writes behind her husband’s back even though he doesn’t want her to. The message for change in the story is that women can break the stereotype and do not have to be forced into a marriage. The theme in this story is freedom and women being trapped in relationships with their significant other.
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