The Yellow Wallpaper: What The Hell???? The Yellow Wallpaper does nothing but confuse me. It seems to be about a high strung, mentally ill woman who is obsessed with rotting wallpaper. This yellow wallpaper obsesses her so much that she begins to distrust everyone, even her husband. She is terrified that someone will take her wallpaper or find out more about it than she knows. One point I found interesting is that she sees a woman behind bars trying to get out in the pattern of the wallpaper. This might be the only thing in this story that made sense to me. The pattern with the woman seems to be r