Feminist hero or mental disorder The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is about a woman who suffers from temporary nervous depression. ... "The Yellow Wallpaper is a small literary masterpiece. ... In fact "The story was wrenched out of Gilman's own life- (Afterword to "The Yellow Wallpaper" 123). This is the period when Gilman moved to California (1888), because she separated from her husband Charles Walter Stetson, and 2 years later (1890 -1892) she wrote her novel story "The Yellow Wallpaper". The narrator Charlotte Gilman lived through the depression that was ment...

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The story "The Yellow Wall-paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman shows the binary relationship between oppression and freedom for women in the late 1800's. ... In the end, she achieves freedom from these oppressors through the symbolic, delusional escape in the yellow wallpaper. ... She describes the color of the wallpaper as "repellent, almost revolting; a smoldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight. ... The color yellow is known to symbolize insanity. ... The author uses personification to make the wallpaper laugh at the narrator's inability to free h...

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• Grade Level: High School

"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. ... Seen through the progression of her journal entries in which "The Yellow Wallpaper " is told, the narrator transforms from being obedient, oblivious and nervous and becomes assertive, aware, and ultimately insane. ... 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. ...

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• 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...

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The Yellow Wallpaper The short story, Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is written in first person and it is from our nameless character's writings that we are introduced to her world and her life. ... The yellow wall paper has imprisoned her in this room and the development begins. ... More like a mirror, the yellow wallpaper reflects what our main character is really going through and feeling. ... The story continues to progress as she deconstructs and analyzes the wallpaper until the climax when our main character locks herself in the yellow room to finally tear all o...

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Alone in the yellow-wallpapered nursery of a rented house, she descends into madness. ... An article in Short Story Criticism suggests that it possibly could be what Gilman herself may have experienced during her battle with depression ("The Yellow Wallpaper- SSC, 119). ... When the narrator describes her room, the wallpaper in the nursery, she uses brilliant imagery. She describes the wallpaper as "dull enough to confuse the eye in following."" ... (Gilman, "Yellow- 170) Just by digesting these words, the reader can feel his or her lip actually curl at the ugly wallpaper, an eirdence of goo...

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• Grade Level: High School