Why must the woman in the wallpaper “creep” by daylight, and why must it be “humiliating” (p. 654) for her to do so? What could the daylight symbolize? How does her feeling of humiliation contradict the assumptions about women at the Time?
The narrator thinks she sees the wallpaper woman outside in the daylight only to hide when others come in. She is certain that it is the same woman from behind the wallpaper because of the “creeping,” something that most women would never do in daylight. The narrator acknowledges that it must be extremely humiliating to be caught creeping in the daylight; she only creeps during the day when the door is locked and John is gone.
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