"The Yellow Wallpaper"" is about a woman that suffers from a mental illness and is kept in a room with only a bed and her own thoughts, which ultimately lead to her mental downfall. In this short story, the author uses the yellow wallpaper as a prominent symbol to represent the web of restraints that affected so many women in that time era. ... Gilman builds the majority of this story on the yellow wallpaper that stands as a symbol for the many struggles that a women in that day and age had to deal with. ... After further investigation of this yellow wallpaper, Jane claims to have seen a woma...

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• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 287
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• Grade Level: High School