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. ... This also ran parallel to the narrator's life in the fact that the narrator felt trapped under he husband's care and felt the need to "creep" or write in her journal and other things behind her husbands back. ... I also believe that the "great immovable bed" symbolizes the narrator's life. ... She is what the narrator feels she has to compete with. The narrator sees her as a perfect woma...

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In Charlotte Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," the narrator's only triumph from an oppressive society is to become insane. ... The narrator has no escape from society. 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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Descent into Madness The descent into madness takes place in both story's the Tell Tale Heart and The Yellow Wallpaper. ... The Yellow Wallpaper deals with a women who is experiencing psychological difficulties. ... This denial of stimulus and her obsession with the yellow wallpaper in the room which she is confined eventually takes its toll on the women and her journey to madness begins. ... In the Yellow Wallpaper he women becomes so disillusioned and obsessed with the wallpaper that objects begin to appear. ... The Yellow Wallpaper. ...

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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. ... Strong dominate male and submissive female Pulling the wallpaper down was a symbol of feminism being released from bondage. ...

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