Why does the narrator lock her husband and Jennie out of her room?

because she wants to rip all of the paper off of the wall before they force her to leave

because she is afraid that they will trap her underneath the wallpaper if she does not get all of it off of the wall

because they will attempt to stop her from removing the wallpaper

all of the above

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Melissa Yoder

8 October, 16:10

Why does the narrator lock her husband and Jennie out of her room?

because she wants to rip all of the paper off of the wall before they force her to leave

because she is afraid that they will trap her underneath the wallpaper if she does not get all of it off of the wall

because they will attempt to stop her from removing the wallpaper

all of the above

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Jon Herman · Answer 1

She locks her husband and Jennie out of the room for all of those reasons.

She is attempting to free the woman from behind the wallpaper (and herself from the constraints of her husband's cruelty). In order to free the woman, she has to be able to remove the wallpaper. Since, as the narrator describes the situation, it's fairly clear that she's going insane, she believes that she has to get all the wallpaper off so that they can't put the woman (her) back into the wall. It's important to the narrator that they not stop her from removing the paper.