The Yellow Wallpaper

This story was very slow. I had a hard time keeping my attention because it felt like reading someones diary except it was not new information but the same feelings and thoughts repeating themselves again and again.  I feel that the story was a portrayal of the actual author in some ways. After reading the biography at the beginning and the reasons why she wrote it at the end it becomes clear to me that it is in many ways, except for the delusions. In the story this poor woman is treated like she is ignorant and knows nothing because 1) she is a woman 2) her husband is a doctor and 3) she is not to be taken literally by anyone. I feel she has so many obsessive ways about the wallpaper because she is just BORED. It says the windows are closed and have bars on them and the door has a gate in the hall. It is almost like a jail to her and she is not allowed to leave. Without any way to get out, she feels trapped and is bored and feels more crazy because she is being locked away in this tiny old room with ugly wallpaper. Therefore, her obsession is began and she has delusions about a woman in the wallpaper. I feel like this woman is her but she is unaware of it until the end when she lets herself take the persona of the wall woman. I also feel that at the end she was going to kill herself by hanging herself with the rope. Yet the story does not let you know that she does or not. I think she does because John passes out, and why would he if she wasn't in the act of committing suicide? The story definitely brings light to the need for someone who is depressed to not be hidden but to be given opportunities to socialize and just feel better about themselves. If John had allowed her, she would probably have been okay because it's all that she wanted... a life.