In addition, setting is a strategy for the author to introduce symbols in the text, symbols that are not obvious to decipher at the first read. ... These symbols represent Gilman's view on the status of women in the patriarchal society of the nineteenth century. ... The text is very descriptive and loaded with symbols. The author takes the opportunity to relate elements of setting with symbols and meanings beyond the first reading's impressions. ... The unclean yellow of the wallpaper is "strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight" (154); it is a "repellent, almost revolting" yello...

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• Approx Pages: 10
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Madness: The True Sanity in ˜The Yellow Wallpaper' " Ellie McGuire 4/11/14 "The Yellow Wallpaper " by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a story depicting a woman's dissent into madness. Gilman recounts the experiences of a woman who is suffering from postpartum depression while being treated with the same methods prescribed by famous 19th century physician, S. ... Within "The Yellow Wallpaper, " the narrator's descent into madness is a higher form of sanity as she rejects and escapes the insane society that imprisons her. ... The first journal entries made by th...

• Word Count: 1676
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate