Creeping

From The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Creeping recurs as a motif marking the narrator's identification with the trapped woman and her degraded posture under patriarchy.
Late section
I always lock the door when I creep by daylight. I can't do it at night, for I know John would suspect something at once.
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Final section

"I wonder if they all come out of that wall-paper as I did?" The narrator imagines a sisterhood of creeping women across the landscape.

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