"The Yellow Wallpaper" is symbolic of the roles women had in the 1800s. ... Suffering from a "nervous problem" which may have been triggered by postpartum, the narrator stayed in a nursery "with windows that are barred for little children" and it was covered with ugly yellow wallpaper. The more time she spends in the room she became obsessed with the patterns of the wallpaper and the barred windows attributes to her obsession as well as the perception of being imprisoned. ... The woman she sees who is trying to escape from the wallpaper (which symbolizes her life) and her creeping was actua...

• Word Count: 431
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this story, Gilman uses symbolism to reveal some themes associated with "The Yellow Wallpaper.... It is obvious from the start that the narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper" is oppressed by her husband, John. ... The narrator seeks out escape through the yellow wallpaper on the walls of the room. ... As the narrators need for a creative outlet grows, the yellow wallpaper becomes her outlet. ... The yellow wallpaper is a symbol that is open to several different interpretations. ...

• Word Count: 1068
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In The Yellow Wallpaper, originally published in 1899, Charlotte Gilman presents the internal dialogue of a woman diagnosed with "hysteria- and for whom total rest has been prescribed. ... The misdiagnosis of depression and anxiety leads the woman on a downward spiral that eventually causes her to perceive the yellow wallpaper in her room as a projection of herself. ... Her self-control is still intact, but like the wallpaper, disturbing patches show through. ... The protagonist and the woman in the wallpaper are identical; the woman in the wallpaper is a projection of herself. ... The wom...

• Word Count: 873
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In The Yellow Wallpaper, originally published in 1899, Charlotte Gilman presents the internal dialogue of a woman diagnosed with "hysteria- and for whom total rest has been prescribed. ... The misdiagnosis of depression and anxiety leads the woman on a downward spiral that eventually causes her to perceive the yellow wallpaper in her room as a projection of herself. ... Her self-control is still intact, but like the wallpaper, disturbing patches show through. ... The protagonist and the woman in the wallpaper are identical; the woman in the wallpaper is a projection of herself. ... Th...

• Word Count: 829
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper," is meant to represent a certain type of oppressed women, specifically white, middle class women, or the type of woman that began the American feminist movement (I do not call the narrator an apt example of the oppression of all women, as society imposes different yokes of oppression on different women. ... "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a feminist indictment of society at large. ... Nevertheless, a reasonable attempt should be made, especially for pieces of literature with as much to say as "The Yellow Wallpaper." ...

• Word Count: 845
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the story "The Yellow Wallpaper" Jane is naturally the victim and sympathetic character in this story created by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. ... Readers know for sure that she has completely lost it once she wonders "if they all come out of that wallpaper as I did" (Gilman 483). "At this moment, we see the completion of her madness, as she starts to believe that she is the woman freed from within the wallpaper's patter" (Kerr 3). If John, as a doctor, for one second would have thought about what kind of emotional, and twisted state she must have been in to s...

• Word Count: 1180
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses her personal battle with postpartum depression to create a powerful story shining a light on the trials women in the nineteenth century had to face while living in this misogynistic society. ...

• Word Count: 529
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While mental illness may be a little subtler in Montressor's case, it is a prominent theme in Charlotte Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper. ... Because her husband is condescending to her, she is not able to confide in him about her obsession with the wallpaper, ultimately leading to her psychotic break. ... In the end we see the narrator believe that she actually came from the wallpaper, and tears it down to set the woman inside free. ...

• Word Count: 799
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's, The Yellow Wallpaper and in Virginia Woolf's, A Room of Ones Own, we get a particular look into women's roles in a patriarchal society. ... In Gilman's, The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrators husband and other authority figures portray the main character as submissive and constantly belittle her opinions. ...

• Word Count: 1227
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate