"I never saw so much expression in an inanimate thing before, and we all know how much expression they have! I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store. The story is told as her mystery journal, in which she records her contemplations as her fixation on the wallpaper develops. The narrator is living in a house in which she feels uncomfortable, in a room she hasn't picked out, and is forbidden from engaging in the one activity she enjoys. She ends up becoming obsessed with the wallpaper in the room. She begins fanatically tracing the pattern of the wallpaper and soon becomes convinced that there is a woman trapped within the paper. She decided to free the woman in the wallpaper by peeling it off. She ends up going insane and believes she is the woman in the wallpaper. In "The Yellow Wallpaper," Gilman suggests through setting and characterization that when a loving, faithless husband attempts to cure his wife by locking her into childhood, he may actually drive her to an unhealthy obsession and eventually to insanity. Gilman uses setting to show that being locked up like a child can lead to obsession and madness. Early in the story, for example, the narrator offers this description of the room where she is staying: "So we took the nursery at the top of the house. It was nursery first, then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children"  (p. 143). Here, the setting clearly indicates that the narrator is being locked behind barred windows like a child in a nursery. The narrator starts showing obsession with the wallpaper from spending so much time in the room looking at it. "I'm getting really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper. Perhaps it is because of the wallpaper. It dwells in my mind so!  (p. 147) Then the narrator shows madness over the wallpaper. "Through watching so