The Yellow Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper

By the Fourth of July, what does the narrator admit about the wallpaper? What clues does Gilman give about the narrator's state?

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This paper looks to me as if it knew what a vicious influence it had!
There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down.
I get positively angry with the impertinence of it and the everlastingness. Up and down and sideways they crawl, and those absurd, unblinking eyes are everywhere There is one place where two breaths didn't match, and the eyes go all up and down the line, one a little higher than the other.

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The Yellow Wallpaper