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. Also, Gilman incorporates a significant amount of anthropomorphism that seems to give life to the illness as well as the wallpaper. 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 woman, sometimes many women, stuck behind or within the ...

• Word Count: 622
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 2055
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 831
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School