yelllow wall paper

In the beginning of the story, the author continuously talks of the wallpaper as being a hideous creation. ?One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin.? (pg. 107). She talks about being able to see two different patterns in the paper as well, one behind the other. In the ?back pattern? she sees a figure of a woman who is desperately trying to escape the bars formed by the ?front pattern?. ?This wall-paper has …

…would stand up and fight for equal rights, which many do. By doing some ?on the side? homework I found that the women in the time that this story was written were so pressured, especially there husbands, to look and act a certain way, to always listen to what the ?man? says. These kinds of things were stressed onto the woman so much that many took their lives because they could not handle the pressure.