Mallard. In The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator begins to lose her mentality by being confined to a room and being unable to write almost anything. She becomes truly free when she no longer has control of her mind. It sticks horribly and he just loves the design! All those strangled heads and bulbous eyes and waving mushroom growths just scream in derision, "And it's like a woman bending over and crawling behind that picture. I don't like it one bit. I wonder if I start thinking, 'Go crazy' or severely traumatized by this event, the wallpaper and the woman represent her true self, however when she tears the paper on the wall she is destroying what once was. The irony of both stories is that both protagonists must pay a price for their freedom. Both stories revolve around the theme of confinement and oppression in marriage.,