It is customary to find the symbol of the house as representing a secure place for a woman's transformation and her release of self expression. ... It does not take the form of the traditional symbol of security for the domestic activities of a woman, but it does allow for and contain her metamorphosis. ... As she says near the end of the story, "I think that woman gets out in the daytime! ... It is the same woman, I know, for she always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight... Gilman's complexity of symbols used in The Yellow Wall-Paper creates a portrayal of the oppr...

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The Yellow Wall-Paper In the nineteenth century, women were repressed and controlled by their husbands and male influences The narrator of the story is repressed and represents the oppression of women in society. A house is normally a symbol of a secure place for a woman, but this house is not her own and she does not want to be in it. The house does not represent the traditional symbol of security for the domestic activities of a woman. ... Strong dominate male and submissive female Pulling the wallpaper down was a symbol of feminism being released from bondage. Woman is suf...

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The central symbol is the yellow wallpaper, I believe Gilman was trying to use the woman stuck in the wallpaper to symbolize the social position women played in society at the time. ... The character of Jennie, I believe is the typical perfect woman for the time this story takes place in. ... The narrator sees her as a perfect woman and wonders why she can't be like Jennie. ...

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Both are symbols showing the inner feeling of the women portrayed. In "The Yellow Wallpaper", Gilman writes about how the woman loathed the wallpaper. ... In "The Yellow Wallpaper", Gilman conveyed that love was enough for the woman to not fight back about the room she was in. ... The room which the woman stayed most of her days in "The Yellow Wallpaper" was her demise. ... In "The Yellow Wallpaper", the woman in the second layer of the wallpaper was herself. ...

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However, these symbols are not as good as the real thing. ... In Charlotte Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," the narrator's only triumph from an oppressive society is to become insane. ... A decision made by a woman, how scandalous! ... If a woman starts to write or read, it is considered that the woman is straying away from God. ... The only place she finds amusement is the hideous yellow wallpaper. ...

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• Grade Level: High School