Wallpaper has never been anything more than a tacky decoration in my home, but in "The Yellow Wallpaper" written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, she created it not only to symbolize something greater but also to show how an inanimate object can capture someone and hold them until madness fills their insecurities. This unsightly wall sticker has gained movement, sensation, and a scent by the end of the story, recognized only by the nameless woman herself. The wallpaper was given personified characteristics and got a key role in this woman's life, being trapped by the disgusting yellow paper, the women go crazy as the mustard yellow walls became responsible for her daily experiences. The poisonous paper was positioned to cause the woman to fall into a deep state of postpartum depression after the birth of her baby and was placed in what she was told "a nursery" by the people who had placed it there it was been a nursery for mentally ill patients as readers got the first impression that it resembled a nursery. The nursery did not resemble a nursery in any way, but it had ugly yellow wallpaper decorating the walls. Throughout history wallpaper has been used both ironically and as a way to hide many of the symbols of the story. The narrator spent much of her day in the yellow lines room and had begun to appreciate the pattern and find things in the pattern. Sometimes the narrator had been so trapped by the wallpaper that she had said, "I don't want to go out and I don't want anyone to come in." (Gilman 12) showing readers that he has developed a desire and protective characteristic towards wallpaper. She was captured by the drawing which is the only thing she will worry about and she knows that if the women who observe her during the day saw her studying the paper she would be forced to move away from the wallpaper, so she studied it at night, "I guess that I'll have to go back to the pattern when night comes, and that's hard." (Gilman 13) because he knew the lack of privacy during the day. The wallpaper and his reaction to it increased or worsened, in the student paper they described it as “That pain, a constant, dragging tiredness” would eventually lead to a nervous breakdown. As the days turned into months, depression began to consume her.” (Denise D. Knight 470) Depression was taking control of her life to such an extent that instead of seeing the increasing improvements at the beginning of the story with pride and encouragement she transformed into a woman trapped inside the