This yellow wallpaper among all the cards is the most significant one because of the yellow color. Yellow is usually a cheerful color and stimulates the brain in a positive way (Changing Jobs). Irony is created in the story because the usual meaning of yellow contradicts the way it affects the woman. From the beginning most of what the narrator talked about was wallpaper and how much he hated it. He described it in many ways; he described the patterns, the colors, and anything else he imagined about it. His description at one point was "The color is quite horrible, quite unreliable, and quite maddening, but the pattern is torturous" (653). The narrator thought about wallpaper negatively from the beginning, but was constantly interested in understanding it. The woman became obsessed with understanding wallpaper. At one point she was so intent on uncovering the mysteries of the wallpaper that she would stay up at night, she admits that saying "John was sleeping and I hate to wake him, so I stayed still and watched the moonlight on that wavy wallpaper until I felt creepy” (652). He even got to the point where he thought there was a woman trapped in the wallpaper behind the front pattern, and that she moved and shook the paper. The narrator sees on the wallpaper is a representation of herself and how she went mad. Paula A. Treichler explains, “The woman in the background represents (1) the narrator herself, gone mad” (64). The last night they were at home, she was alone in the room and “As soon as it was moonlight and the poor thing began to crawl and shake the drawing, I got up and ran to help her” (655). newspaper became so bad over time that, combined with the other negative factors in her life, she became completely insane. His