The woman behind the wallpaper represents the narrator's repressed self that she envisions as a prisoner in the domestic sphere of her life. The more that the narrator looks at this wallpaper, the more a woman takes shape: And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern. I don't like it a bit. I wonder--I begin to think--I wish John would take me away from here! This woman is the manifestation of the narrator's...
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