In the end, she achieves freedom from these oppressors through the symbolic, delusional escape in the yellow wallpaper. ... Although the narrator is oppressed, she uses the wallpaper as a way to escape from society and free the women from oppression. ... 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 herself from the wallpaper. ...

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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. ... These things awaken the protagonist character in the narrator, and slowly open her eyes to a woman tearing the wallpaper down for freedom. ... The wallpaper becomes the narrator's best enemy and best friend. 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 deconst...

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Charlotte Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, is a story that exemplifies the common belief, during the 1800's, which held that women were too weak to handle stress and as a result, often collapsed under it. ... The Yellow Wallpaper is a fictitious account of a time when Gilman herself suffered a nervous breakdown. ... The house itself is an old mansion, and the yellow wallpaper in the character's bedroom seems to be really disturbing. ... The theme in The Yellow Wallpaper describes the struggle of women to live in a male-dominated society The narrator's husband is th...

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This leads you to The Story of an Hour and The Yellow Wallpaper. ... Another feminist short story from the 19th century is The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. ... Gilman herself explained the reasons why she wrote The Yellow Wallpaper. ... The Yellow Wallpaper was read on its first decade as a piece of horror fiction, situated in the Gothic genre (Shmoop). ... The first one is "the relationship between husbands and wives" ("The Yellow Wallpaper" 280). ...

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