Yellow Wallpaper
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The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is about a woman who is suffering from temporary nervous depression. Her husband, a doctor, has taken her to a summer vacation home for rest therapy; however, the woman's condition worsens and she sees images of faces in the wallpaper of her room. She believes the images are of women creeping behind the paper and she cannot help but to fixate on them. She tries to tell her husband without successful and with time sees the images more and more frequently. In the end, she locks herself in her room and tears off the wallpaper. The story is a depiction of the plight of women's suffrage and the beginning of the rise of feminism, as well as a reflection of the author's own life and experiences.
The most apparent representation is the pattern on the wallpaper and the images of women creeping behind the wallpaper. "At night in any kind of light,...it becomes bars!..