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"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman has a hidden aspect to it. ... Even the yellow color of the wallpaper has hidden aspects. Yellow flags were commonl hung by a ship when they all became sick or carried disease. The color yellow is also directly associated with insanity in Russia. Zholtyy dom, literally "yellow house," means lunatic asylum in Russian. ... As she is sitting in her bed she looks out the window and see the woman from the wallpaper. ... This was when she wrote the story "The Yellow Wallpaper", therefore suggesting the story as a reflection of her brief period of near insanity
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"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a story of the repression that women faced in the days of the late 1800""s as well as showing the troubles women face today. Gilman writes "The Yellow Wallpaper" from her own personal experiences of having to face the fact that this is a male dominated society and sometimes women suffer because of it. ... The wallpaper and the figure behind it, is symbolic of women""s suffrage. ... At the end, she rips off as much of the wallpaper as she can to symbolically free herself and the figure behind the paper. In the conclusion of the story when she tears off the wallpaper and says, """I""ve got out at last,"" said I, ""in spite of you and Jane? ... Her husband and Jane were symbolic of society and when the wallpaper is down the images are out, feminism is also out. The narrator in "The Yellow Wallpaper" portrays what life was like for Charlotte Gilman in her life. ... Just like the narrator in "The Yellow Wallpaper," she would often "crawl into remote closets and under beds-to hide from the grinding pressure of that profound distress.
Approximate Word count = 1402
Approximate Pages = 5.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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