“I’ve got out at last,” said I, “in spite of you and Jane! And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back!”
I think it is surprising because she has already merged the woman trapped in the wallpaper with herself, and finally gets rid of her husband, but also drives herself crazy.
John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.
I feel troubling with this sentence because the narrator seems like she's used to be laughed by her husband, and even she already taken this for granted.
There comes John, and I must put this away,—he hates to have me write a word.
I find it interesting because she even needs to worry about her husband finding that she's writing something like diary. I think that she lacks autonomy in her marriage.
“Now, these numbers are a secret code, honey,” Arnold Friend explained. He read off the numbers 33, 19, 17 and raised his eyebrows at her to see what she thought of that, but she didn’t think much of it.
I think it makes me confused because of the code. I don't know if the code have other meanings or not.
“My sweet little blue-eyed girl,” he said in a half-sung sigh that had nothing to do with her brown eyes
I think this is interesting because we know Connie's eyes are brown. I think Arnold does not really care about who Connie is. He just want to satisfy his desire for manipulation and possesion.
“Stop gawking at yourself. Who are you? You think you’re so pretty?” she would say.
I'm surprising that Connie's mother undermines Connie's seif-confidence through sarcasm, I don't think it is a healthy relationship of parent and child.