Importance of the setting and background in The Yellow WallpaperThe room itself represents the author's unconscious protective cell that has enveloped her mind, represented by the woman, for a long time. This cell is slowly deteriorating and losing control of its thoughts. I believe that this room acts as a self-defense mechanism when the author herself is admitted to a mental hospital. He puts up this false wall to protect her from getting really crazy and the longer it stays there, the more the wallpaper starts to deteriorate. This ultimately leads to the weakening of his defense until only insanity and insanity remains. All the characters in the story represent real life people with roles altered in his mind. While in the mental institution he merges reality with his subconscious, forming this story from events that are happening here in the real world. When the reader is introduced to the woman, we find her talking about very strange and unusual events happening around her. his. She even claims to have a condition that spells insanity, but the doctor would never tell her straight to her face that she was crazy. He says, “I think it is due to this nervous condition” (453). This shows that he knows there is something wrong with her. This nervous condition he refers to can only mean that he has mental problems and is perhaps going crazy. We can infer this because during this time period doctors did not declare someone crazy because they had no medical evidence. Instead they would simply tell patients they have a nerve condition and send them on their way. He says: "I always have the impression of seeing people walking along the numerous paths and pergolas, but... middle of paper... if bad things are happening in his real life, then he should have a happy place where to live With the collapse of her happy place her defense was gone and she no longer had protection from her madness. This caused all her blocked thoughts to invade her mind and drive her completely mad. When the doctor found her, she tried to come in and help her. When the doctor finally came in, he fainted because he had made so many positive changes with her and was completely heartbroken when he found out that it was all for nothing. This woman had created a safety net in his mind so that he didn't have to face reality of being in a mental asylum, but in the end it all failed and it seems that what she had been protecting herself from finally won her over She was then forced to succumb to her nervous breakdown and realize that she would be committed to a mental asylum for a long time. period.