Being the central image of the whole story, the yellow wallpaper plays a very important role towards the understanding the narrator's conflict. The patterns on the yellow wallpaper are a visual representation of the narrator's mental state --- bizarre and confused. ... Firstly, the wallpaper is an interface between the narrator's world and the world of the creeping woman. ... This is assisted by the physical representation, offered by the wallpaper, of the narrator's internal conflict. ... The overlapping interfaces in The Yellow Wallpaper add to the confusion and the co...

• Word Count: 1540
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This story, entitled "The Yellow Wallpaper," is a not a feminist statement, but a true work of art; merely an artist using her talent. ... After a careful rereading of The "Yellow Wallpaper," it becomes clear that while this is a work of fiction, it is also laced with subliminal symbolism in the story's setting and environments. When reading "The Yellow Wallpaper", a reader cannot miss noticing the importance of the setting in which the action takes place. ... Gilman herself admits this as truth when in an essay entitled "Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper", she states, "It is a descr...

• Word Count: 2394
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Being the central image of the whole story, the yellow wallpaper plays a very important role towards the understanding the narrator's conflict. The patterns on the yellow wallpaper are a visual representation of the narrator's mental state --- bizarre and confused. ... Firstly, the wallpaper is an interface between the narrator's world and the world of the creeping woman. ... This is assisted by the physical representation, offered by the wallpaper, of the narrator's internal conflict. ... The overlapping interfaces in The Yellow Wallpaper add to the confusion and the co...

• Word Count: 1476
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate