<P> The story depicts the effect of understimulation on the narrator 's mental health and her descent into psychosis . With nothing to stimulate her , she becomes obsessed by the pattern and color of the wallpaper . `` It is the strangest yellow , that wall - paper ! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw -- not beautiful ones like buttercups , but old foul , bad yellow things . But there is something else about that paper -- the smell ! ... The only thing I can think of that it is like is the color of the paper ! A yellow smell . '' </P>
<P> The story depicts the effect of understimulation on the narrator 's mental health and her descent into psychosis . With nothing to stimulate her , she becomes obsessed by the pattern and color of the wallpaper . `` It is the strangest yellow , that wall - paper ! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw -- not beautiful ones like buttercups , but old foul , bad yellow things . But there is something else about that paper -- the smell ! ... The only thing I can think of that it is like is the color of the paper ! A yellow smell . '' </P>
what does the wallpaper smell like in the yellow wallpaper
what does the wallpaper smell like in the yellow wallpaper
A yellow smell
A yellow smell