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The narrator, a new mother, has been brought to a country house with her husband, two ordinary people just taking a vacation. The setting that makes the people seem ordinary is the way the narrator describes the home they just rented. She seems to be an ordinary housewife. When the narrator starts talking about her husband she sounds more on the lines like someone who can not think for herself example (John is a physician, …

…in the third person ("in spite of you and Jane"). Finally, she completely loses the plot and is reduced to creeping around the room over and over again. It relates really well to how women were treated at that time in history. The whole thing symbolizes women who are suppressed by men and the woman trapped in the wallpaper is herself it effectively explored a woman's descent into madness, concluding with her suicide by hanging.