"The Yellow Wallpaper" Response

I thought “The Yellow Wallpaper” was random and sporadic in thought. The short story’s narrator jumped from thought to thought throughout the story in a way that is hard to follow. This narration made the story confusing for me. Throughout most of the book I read without understanding for the text. The story seemed to have no plot line. The narrator seemed to just be talking about whatever came to mind. I also did not understand what the wallpapers significance was. For most of the story I had a hard time connecting the wallpaper to the woman. Also the fact that the wallpaper “moved” made no sense to me. I did end up somewhat understanding the wallpaper’s significance at the end of the story. The way I connected it was that the narrator used the wallpaper to signify the containment she felt. The movement of the lady in the wallpaper showed the narrator’s restlessness to be free. In the end when the narrator seemed to become the woman in the wallpaper as she tore the wallpaper down. This action seemed to free the narrator who had at that point become the woman in the wallpaper. This caused the narrator to feel the need to “creep” like she believed the lady in the wallpaper did at night. I also didn’t really understand the idea that the wallpaper moved at night but not during the day. My only understanding of this came by my rationalization that some things look different and more cynical at night. This seemed to radiate through the jumble of text I found this story to be. I feel there was a deeper meaning to the faces the narrator saw in the wallpaper by night. I believe they may have symbolized all the people who were holding her back; such as her husband and their housekeeper. I also didn’t quite understand why her husband called her “little girl” multiple times. I didn’t understand this because he seemed to be downgrading her to no more than a child when it was stated they had a child of their own. My only idea I came up with by the end is that the husband called her such because he saw her thinking she was sick as childish. Overall “The Yellow Wallpaper” confused me and I feel as if I only have a partial understanding of what this story meant to truly convey.