“The Yellow Wall-Paper”

Act of rebellion:

“I have locked the door and thrown the key down into the front path.”

“Then I peeled off all the paper I could reach standing on the floor. It sticks horribly and the pattern just enjoys it! All those strangled heads and bulbous eyes and waddling fungus growths just shriek with derision!”

            The narrator in the book always wants to push the limits, she is bound to one room for the most of the story with awful wallpaper. She constantly asks her husband if he can redo the room, especially fix the walls of the bedroom.  After a while she gets tired of asking. One day before dinner she tells Jennie that she is going to sleep before dinner and not to wake her. When Jennie leaves she locks the door and throws that key out the window. She proceeds to fix the wallpaper. Piece by piece she rips the paper off.