Who Is The Antagonist In The Yellow Wallpaper

Antagonist of “The Yellow Wallpaper” The antagonist of the story is the wallpaper. An antagonist is a character, group of characters, institution, or concept that stands in or represents opposition against which the protagonist must contend. The wallpaper in this story drives her to insanity, she thinks there is a woman behind it, “And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern. I don’t like it a bit.” Pg.8. The way she uses it, it’s like a metaphor for her mental deterioration. John thinks she is getting better, but he sticks her in the room with the yellow wallpaper and she just gets drove crazy from loneliness. She then thinks that the wallpaper is watching her, “This paper looks to me as if it KNEW what a vicious influence it had!” pg.5 John doesn’t realize how much she really is suffering, “John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no REASON to suffer, and that satisfies him.” Pg.4
We have been here two weeks, and I haven’t felt like writing before. I am sitting by the window now, up in this atrocious nursery, and there is nothing to hinder my writing as much as I please, save lack of strength. ” Pg.3 I think that if they would have let her write more it would’ve helped her mental sanity, every now and then if you sit down and write it’ll help you for example taking your frustration’s out and writing about your anger will help you forget about whatever it is your mad about. It wasn’t right for the doctors to not allow her to write that was a flaw in their part also an example of how awful the medical field was if they thought isolating a person would help with a mental