1. Imagery in the Yellow Wallpaper
The story "The Yellow Wallpaper," written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, was interesting with deep symbolic undertones. The story starts out with John and his wife moving to a colonial estate for the summer. Meanwhile, the woman finds the mansion to be "a haunted house" and still she thought it had s...
The story "The Yellow Wall-paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman shows the binary relationship between oppression and freedom for women in the late 1800's. ... Gilman is showing through the narrator of this story, every women's struggle for freedom from oppression. Although the narrator clearly suffers from mental illness, Gilman's story of this wallpaper shows an underlying theme of freedom vs. oppression rather than purely a struggle with mental illness. ...