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. ... The narrator notices two patterns in the wallpaper. ... 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

"The Yellow Wallpaper" is symbolic of the roles women had in the 1800s. ... The narrator tells the story of a young mother who came to a summer home to "rest" from her nervous condition. ... 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. ... Being locked in the room with no interaction other than being watched by her husband's sister the narrator indulged her feelings into her journal, "quite alone" and "hedges and walls and...

• Word Count: 431
• Approx Pages: 2
• 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. ... The narrator initiates the story by describing a beautiful, but prison-like house, run by the protagonist's husband that both realistically and symbolically confines his wife. ... The protagonist and the woman in the wa...

• 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. ... The narrator initiates the story by describing a beautiful, but prison-like house, run by the protagonist's husband that both realistically and symbolically confines his wife. ... The protagonist and the woman in t...

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