This short story can be considered an impossible narrative due to its unstable plot with an erratic main character whose mental instability makes the reader question the true meaning and the validity of the story. Many narratives evolve with plots that are not as uneven as “The Yellow Wallpaper” is. The protagonist is so irrational and her diary becomes more and more precarious the longer she remains confined in the room with the yellow wallpaper. She becomes almost obsessed and “angry enough to do something desperate” (Gilman 473): suicide. However, after immediately considering jumping out of the window, he realizes that suicide would be too "improper and might be misunderstood" (Gilman 473) (an example of social context in the story of how he would rather suffer than kill himself because the time period where he lived would have despised such a thing