"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, deals with a wife and husband and their new room

where the “windows are barred” forced to sleep in a “great immovable bed [that] is                                 nailed down” and is constantly called a “nervous patient” by her husband John. Which leads one to believe that she is a patient of Dr. John in what is possibly a mental institution. Inside of this room the wall-paper is described as “irritating” with a “provoking formless sort of figure”. This hints at the narrator and her “imaginative power” which should be categorized as the beginning stages of dementia. This undiagnosed case of potential dementia is only reinforced to be true by the narrator’s interaction with the “horrid wall-paper”. She is constantly observing a woman within the wall-paper that “shakes the pattern” in what seems like to be an attempt to escape much like how the narrator wants to escape her confinement in the nursery room. During her studies of the wall-paper she feels compelled to tell John about it, but does not as she is “determined that nobody shall find it out”. In her determination to “find it out” the narrator  attempts to watch the women outside through all of the windows at once, yet each window is on   a different wall, causing her to spin in circles in the middle of her room only catching a “glimpse” of the woman. Finally the narrator reaches the point in which she locks herself in the room and throws the key out of the window in order to be alone in her conquest of the woman from the wall-paper.  This goes to show that the obsession with the woman has reached a point in which nothing else matters to the narrator and that the wall-paper must go. With each tear of the paper her sanity slips away to an unreachable distance that parallels her struggle to catch the woman in the yellow wall-paper.