In "The Yellow Wallpaper," the narrator's focus on the spreading smell of the wallpaper indicate she has become obsessed with the wallpaper.
<h3>Why does the narrator focus on the spreading smell?</h3>
She has become obsessed with the smell, as throughout the story, she pays attention to how the wallpaper peels and falls apart on the walls. She does not like living in the country and therefore the obsession she has with how the wallpaper comes apart is symbolic of how she is also coming apart.
The smell of the wallpaper symbolizes increasing mental illness and sickness of the narrator her rest cure is intensifying. In the section that follows, the narrator mentions that she considered burning the house down in order to eliminate the wallpaper smell.
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It is a direct quotation :)