Jane is sick so her husband John takes her to a house in the country. He makes her sleep in the upstairs bedroom which used to be a nursery. Jane stares at the wallpaper in the room all day and follows the patterns in it. She is constantly trying to figure out the pattern. At night she sees a lady behind the paper trying to get out, and during the day the lady gets out and creeps around. On the last day Jane manages to pull off the wallpaper and "release the old lady." She then believe that she is one of the creeping ladies and starts to creep around the wall. Her husband comes homes, sees her, and passes out while she still creeps.
I think that the author who wrote this was writing about her own mental problems, and the upstairs room would represent her head. I think she felt trapped in her own head and couldn't find a way it. She would just lay around day after day and try to unwind her thoughts, which is represented by the wallpaper. At night, when she slept her thoughts would just not let go. On some days she would be able to release her thoughts and other days she just felt trapped. I think her husband played a huge part in her mental problem. Whenever he came by, she would feel even more trapped. The night she locked her self in her room would be the night she tried to commit suicide. She finally thought she found a release for her mind, so she tried it. When she failed at committing suicide, she felt as if she was walking circles in her own head still. The most interesting part is watching her slowly go crazy through the changes in her writing. It went from carefully formatted to jumpy.
She may have been suffering from postpartum depression, because it mentions her child briefly in the story.
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