Atmosphere In The Yellow Wallpaper

After reading the short story, did you find that the atmosphere changed from the introduction to the conclusion of the short story?

After reading the story I found that there is a shift in the atmosphere from the introduction to the conclusion of the story where the mood transitioned from genial, cozy, and snug to depressing, eerie, and frightful. In the beginning of the story, the speaker and her family move into a "beautiful place, quite alone, standing well back from the road, quite three miles from the village"(page 4). John is “very careful and loving, and hardly lets [her] stir without special direction” (page 4) The shift of mood initiate when the speaker begins observing the “repellent, almost revolting unclean yellow”(page 7) wall

As time goes on, she starts getting frustrated and a little bit delusional. She is not just glance at them anymore; she starts noticing the patterns on the wallpaper, and this can be viewed as an indication of hallucination. Moreover, she sinks into her imagery world and seriously thinks there is a woman trapped inside the wallpaper. She believes John is plotting something. By the end of the story she crawls over her husband and this is the point where we ultimately know she is crazy. The strange yellow wall paper greatly contributes to the eerie atmosphere and mirrors the horrifying mood of the story. The author's degree of insanity has gradually increased during the period of living in the room with the yellow wallpaper. By the end of the story, she becomes completely insane and believes she is the woman who is being trapped in the hideous wall paper and finally reaches

As the story progresses provide three examples of when the female narrator showed a change with regards to her personality and actions. Did she get 'better' or 'worse' as the story progressed?

At the beginning of the story, the narrator, Jane, appears to be a normal woman with great imagination and curiosity although her husband John claims that she has a "temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency" (page 3).The first shift regards to Jane's personality and actions lies in her discovery of the hideous yellow wallpaper after they move into what she calls a "haunted house" (page 1). She feels uncomfortable and becomes a little bit unconscious. Furthermore, the second shift begins when she sinks into her imaginary world within the yellow wallpaper; the awful wallpaper has "dwells in [her] mind"(page 11). She is gradually "getting dreadfully fretful and querulous"(page 11). Her delusional state utterly takes her over as she hallucinates the patterns on the wall paper as "a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern"(page 13). She starts to sleep at morning and observe the "woman inside the wall paper" at night. The last shift regarding to Jane's personality and action appears to be when she claims that "the front pattern DOES move"(page 18) because "the woman behind shakes it"(page 18). Moreover, she sometimes "think[s] there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over"