Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," is a story about a new mother suffering from a temporary nervous depression. ... In this story, Gilman uses symbolism to reveal some themes associated with "The Yellow Wallpaper.... Perhaps because of the wallpaper" (Gilman p380). ... The yellow wallpaper is a symbol that is open to several different interpretations. The diversity of this symbol allowed Charlotte Perkins Gilman to use the symbol of the yellow wallpaper to expose several different suggestions about what the true causes of insanity are. ...

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"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. ... 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. ... Not only does Gilman introduce the narrator without a name to illustrate her oppressive reality, but Gilman also outlines the narrator's compliance as she agrees to the treatment her husband suggests. ... Imme...

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In "The Yellow Wall-Paper" the author Charlotte Gilman vividly writes the effects of oppression on women. ... "The Yellow Wall-Paper" is about a woman's' perception of the control men have and the unwillingness for one woman to give into the male patriarchy. ... Perhaps because of the wallpaper." The wallpaper could be seen as a potential cure for the wife. Later, she begins to see a womanly figure amidst the symbols and designs; soon the figure emerges to be a woman trapped behind bars. ...

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The story "The Yellow Wallpaper," written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, was interesting with deep symbolic undertones. ... The yellow wallpaper is more or less disorganized. ... The underlying symbol of the yellow wallpaper is the main character's sanity. ... Her eyes are constantly on the yellow wallpaper. ... "The Yellow Wallpaper" provides symbolic meanings for the main character. ...

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The Yellow Wallpaper is of a woman, a new mother, who has been brought to a country house for a "rest-cure" (upon medical advice) by her husband; he selects for her the room with the yellow wallpaper, the nursery, in which the "windows are barred for little children" and the bed has been nailed to the floor. ... She obsesses about the yellow wallpaper, in which she sees frightful patterns and an imprisoned female figure trying to emerge. ... She comes to believe that the woman in the wallpaper is shaking the pattern, trying to escape, and then later becomes obsessed with rescuing the same w...

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• Grade Level: High School