Although John thinks that he is helping his wife, Jane, by keeping her isolated and inactive, this is actually an imprisonment and leads to Jane's breakdown. The yellow wallpaper lines the wall of her room. They are the metaphorical prison bars of her incarceration. So, John is comparable to the wallpaper in the sense that he basically imprisons her and the wallpaper coats the actual walls of her prison. John is condescending to Jane, telling...
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