Read the following quotation from "The Yellow Wallpaper" and answer the question that follows.

"But in the places where it isn't faded and where the sun is just so - I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about behind that silly and conspicuous front design."

What does this quotation suggest about the wallpaper? What does the quotation reveal about the narrator herself as well as her thoughts?