Creep Around The Room example essay topic
She begins to show signs of her schizophrenia. She sits in her room starring at the walls and begins to envision people stuck behind the wallpaper. She talks to them and plots to help release them. "The front pattern does move-and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it!" (640). "They get through, and the pattern strangles them off and turns them upside down, and makes their eyes white!" (640).
This schizophrenia later changes into, a multiple personality, as she believes that she is the woman that is trapped behind the paper. The whole time the wallpaper moves because she is creeping around the room in a frantic circle that she cannot stop. "There is a very funny mark on this wall, low down, near the mopboard. A streak that runs around the room". (640). She made this streak by her unending creep around the room, "But here I can creep smoothly on the floor, and my shoulder just fits in that long smooch around the wall, so I cannot lose my way".
(642). In the end she tells John, "I've got out at last, in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper so you can't put me back". (643).
At this John faints, but she remains in the room continuing to creep, for she believes that she is this woman that creeps out among the trees, down the road, and everywhere outside. By the end of the story she has drifted into her own little world with only a finger left grasping at reality.