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The narrator and john arrive at an ancestral home
John selects the large attic room for them to sleep in, which is prepared with a really ugly yellow pattern the narrator hates -
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The narrator is not allowed to leave the room
The narrator is not allowed to write, do housework, or help with her baby. She begs John to let her move but he says no. -
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The narrator hates the wallpaper and begins to follow the pattern of the wallpaper
She follows the pattern in search of a secret. She soon finds a women in the pattern that creeps behind the bars of the wallpaper -
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The narrator ask to visit cousin or move, John says no.
When John refuses to let the narrator visit her cousin or move out of the room because she is getting better, she starts to suspect thattt John and Hennie are also hiding a secret obsession with the wallpaper. -
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The narrators becomes attached to the wallpaper.
The narrator's mood starts to improve as she becomess attachedd to the wallpaper and feels sympathy for the woman trapped.