The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is such an interesting story that it left me breathless in many parts. The narrator is a woman, (we can't be sure if her name is Jane), that suffers of depression and doctors say she also might have hysterical tendency, one of the reasons why her husband John forbids her to express herself and her feelings. 

Everyone thinks she is crazy and that she has problems.In the begging of the story, when she is hiding her journal, she describes the house and the things around, but the things she focus more on are her room, that used to be a nursery, and the "horrible wall-paper" on the wall; she doesn't like the wall-paper but nor her husband or Jennie (her sister in law and caretaker) will do something about it. 

As the time goes on in the story, the wall-paper start to take a different shape every time for the narrator. She sees it as a mistery and she doesn´t want anyone to see it, because she wants to find it out alone. Her husband believes that she is recovering, but every day that passes, she feels weak and tires. 

One day she sees in the yellow wall-paper the shape of a woman behind some bars. And suddenly that shape begins to move all around the paper, but during the night the woman looks as if she wants to scape and break the bars. When the writer is alone at home, she decides to free that woman from the bars by tearing off the wall paper, biting it... destroying it... When her husband comes in he just faints...

I believe that the woman in the wall-paper was her inside the nursery, behind those 4 walls and the window... trying to look for freedom; the freedom that her own husband took away from her. The woman she was seeing, was the reflect of her because she didn't found a way to express how she was feeling in that room. In the end the treatment her husband thought that was going to succeed, ended up in insanity.