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Which element of plot in "The Yellow Wallpaper" is built by showing the narrator's

increasing obsession with the pattern in the wallpaper?

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The story's narrator becomes obsessed with the fairly inconsequential yellow wallpaper in his room. A simple interpretation of the wallpaper's meaning is that it represents the narrator's mental deterioration. At first, the confusion of the yellow wallpaper irritates her and makes her feel uneasy.

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