Opening section
"It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls." The room's sinister history hinted at.
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From The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The narrator's bedroom, with barred windows and a nailed-down bed, is described as a former nursery but functions as cell, asylum, and infantilizing trap.
Later section
"This bedstead is fairly gnawed!" Evidence of previous inhabitants' suffering, suggesting she is not the first.
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