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In this quote the narrator describes the beginning of her assault on the yellow wallpaper, demonstrating a further slide into madness. In her mind the inanimate wallpaper laughs mockingly at her desperate attempts to tear it down. The narrator tries to evade her illness's corrupting influence, but is only met with derision from the "strangled heads" of the wallpaper's previous victims. Fungus appears here as a symbol of madness and sickness, an unclean, infecting organism.
This tearing of the wallpaper is further evidence that earlier clues in the narrator's diary entry (specifically, her observations that someone has been tearing the…