Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a sad story about the cruelty that women faced in the late 1800's. ... The story consists of several major symbolic elements, including the marriage bed nailed to the floor, the yellow wallpaper, as well as the women who hide behind the wallpaper. ... Another symbol in this story is the yellow wallpaper from which the title is taken. ... "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a primarily naturalistic story. ... Charlotte Perkins Gilman draws from her own personal experiences in "The Yellow Wallpaper." ...

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The Yellow Wallpaper The short story, Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is written in first person and it is from our nameless character's writings that we are introduced to her world and her life. ... - The smell of the room itself is a symbol of male dominance: "It is not bad -at first, and very gentle, but quite the subtlest, most enduring odor I ever met."" ... More like a mirror, the yellow wallpaper reflects what our main character is really going through and feeling. ... The story continues to progress as she deconstructs and analyzes the wallpaper until the c...

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Gilman uses the wallpaper of the room to convey the mental state of the woman being kept in the house. ... 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. ... In "The Yellow Wallpaper", the husband wanted nothing but the best for his wife. ... In "The Yellow Wallpaper", the woman in the second layer of the wallpaper was herself. ...

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In "The Yellow Wall-Paper" the author Charlotte Gilman vividly writes the effects of oppression on women. ... "The Yellow Wall-Paper" is about a woman's' perception of the control men have and the unwillingness for one woman to give into the male patriarchy. ... Perhaps because of the wallpaper." The wallpaper could be seen as a potential cure for the wife. Later, she begins to see a womanly figure amidst the symbols and designs; soon the figure emerges to be a woman trapped behind bars. ...

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The story "The Yellow Wallpaper," written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, was interesting with deep symbolic undertones. ... The yellow wallpaper is more or less disorganized. ... The underlying symbol of the yellow wallpaper is the main character's sanity. ... Her eyes are constantly on the yellow wallpaper. ... "The Yellow Wallpaper" provides symbolic meanings for the main character. ...

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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. ... The only place she finds amusement is the hideous yellow wallpaper. ... As she tries to study the wallpaper, she sees her own depressing existence. ... She can only escape by creating her own world, where she is the woman behind the wallpaper. ...

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