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Read & copy
“in spite of you and Jane! And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back!”
Meaning & context
At the story’s climax, the narrator treats tearing away the wallpaper as an escape from the confinement she has come to associate with the room and with the figures controlling her.
Source details
The Yellow Wallpaper, represented by Project Gutenberg #1952. The words are spoken by the unnamed narrator to John at the story’s disturbing climax; the scene depicts psychological breakdown inside fiction and is not presented as mental-health guidance.