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The yellow wallpaper
The yellow wallpaper is a story manifesting a woman's struggle in the male-centric
society where the social norms and thinking patter revolves around only one gender. Although it
may seem ambiguous to many readers who are unaware of the author's way of writing, the
treatment to the character is quite fascinating (Gilman).
The yellow wallpaper in the room symbolizes the narrator's confinement on a personal
level who has a controlling husband as well as on a regular level as a woman in a society
controlled by men. In the story, the narrator has an oppressive husband who drives his wife mad
by limiting her desires to help her. The connection with the yellow wallpaper with the narrator
represents the values of a society where a woman must enjoy being at home and doing domestic
jobs.
“I don't like to look out of the windows even--there are so many of those creeping women, and
they creep so fast.
I wonder if they all come out of that wallpaper as I did?”
The narrator had a desire to write which she was not allowed by her husband. The violent
imagery used in order to describe the yellow wallpaper conveys the impact of the set of rules for
women on women (Turner 58). The wallpaper also symbolizes the narrator's mind which later