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What does this excerpt from the end of "The Yellow Wallpaper" tell the reader about the narrator's mental shift?

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Hi, you've asked an incomplete question. The options read;

"I don't like to look out of the windows even — there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast. I wonder if they all come out of that wallpaper, as I did?"

A.The narrator believes the creeping women will attack her.

B. The narrator believes that she was once behind the wallpaper herself.

C. The narrator believes the woman behind the wallpaper has finally escaped.

D. The narrator believes the window bars will not allow her to escape.

Answer:

B.The narrator believes that she was once behind the wallpaper herself.

Step-by-step explanation:

Note the expression. "I wonder if they all come out of that wallpaper, as I did?."

Based on this expression especially the bolded part, we can observe that the narrator experiences a mental shift from what she saw to where she and "those creeping women" came from.

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