The narrator in "The Yellow Wallpaper " struggled with this very thing, she found solace through writing yet was not always able to do so due to her condition. ... In the "Yellow Wallpaper " the narrator begins by describing the house she was advised to go to, until she recovered from her illness, as being "quite alone " (Gilman). ... In the "Yellow wallpaper " the narrator said she "I did write in spite of them; but it DOES exhaust me a good deal " (Gilman). ... The narrator first described the wallpaper to be "repellent, almost revolting; a smoldering unclean yellow " (Gilman). ... All pe...

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Symbolism There are a few different elements of the setting that contributes to the story. 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. Gilman tries to show ...

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In "The Yellow Wallpaper", Gilman writes about how the woman loathed the wallpaper. ... The patterns in the wallpaper in "The Yellow Wallpaper" during the day showed the wear and tear of innocence from the children that used the room from previous owners. ... The room which the woman stayed most of her days in "The Yellow Wallpaper" was her demise. ... 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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• Grade Level: High School

She spends most of her time in a room with yellow wallpaper and very little to occupy her mind with. ... The narrator wants to set this woman free, so she peels off the yellow wallpaper. ... Though The Yellow Wallpaper is fiction, it was based on Gilman's own experience after being diagnosed as hysteric and prescribed a rest cure which prohibited her writing. However, The Yellow Wallpaper is more than a case study in mental illness or a horror story it is a story of a dominant/submissive relationship between husband and wife. ... Edna and the narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper were not ...

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• Grade Level: High School