ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: American Civil War, Ambrose Bierce

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1120
• Professor: Sean Moreland

Document Summary

Conlict =the narrator wishes to spend her ime wriing and socializing, but her husband tells her she must rest. The narrator tries to express her own opinion to her husband, but is overruled on every count. In other words, this conlict results in the narrator"s repression. The wallpaper freaks out the narrator, and she imagines a woman trapped within the paper. Forced to lie in bed all day and rest, the narrator becomes completely entranced by the wallpaper and is drawn into trying to decode its design. This adds a layer of complicaion to the story as the narrator"s vibrant mind deals with repression by focusing on her surrounding. The narrator strips of all the wallpaper in her room. This is the ulimate moment of rebellion for the protagonist as she takes acion towards freedom. She is inally upseing the status quo and declaring her own sense of agency. John atempts to ind out what his wife is up to.