The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In “The Yellow Wall-Paper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; the main character has to deal with the oppression and abuse that receive from her husband. In those days all these issues were completely normal at the time for the fact, that the man was superior just because they were men and had important roles in the community. Woman weren’t considered important for the society and because of that they had to respect and obey their husband .The society reflects these actions of superiority and also supports them. There are some effects such as the wallpaper that at the beginning of the story wasn’t that important, but then become a barrier for the narrator, the window that represents being trapped inside the house and the house that reflects for the
narrator the safety place for her.
The wallpaper is the main point of the story; almost all the interaction of the narrator is based on this symbol of the story.
The yellow wallpaper plays different roles that chance in many ways the development of the story. The yellow wallpaper has the ability to trap the narrator with it intricacy of patterns and make her feel that the wallpaper is horrible, "the color is repellant, almost revolting; a smoldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sun." The narrator became to be attached a lot to the wallpaper and this became an obsession for the fact, that is the only way that she can escape from the hostile environment that her husband has made for her.
The window seems to be an unimportant symbol for the story but this one really plays an important role too. This window represents for the narrator the feeling of being inside of a kind of jail and confined of the real world. The window is not a way to get outside because is build with bars. In a part of the story the narrator said, “I don't like to look out of the windows even - there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast.” Also she doesn't want to see the woman outside for the fact that these women still live in the
shadows.
The house represents an unsafe and unstable place for the narrator because, she don't want to be in it. She said that there is some kind of mystery in the house and that is “haunted”, and that “ there is something queer about it”. Although she knows that the house is beautiful and what surround it too, but she still thinks that the house has some kind of possession. Also besides the strange and mysterious issues that happen in the house, is also a place where she releases her thoughts on her writing. The house is one of the principal symbols in the story that interact with the narrator.
In the nineteenth century the women were oppressed and controlled by the man, something that was very normal at the time. This issue is reflects the story but, in a different way because this narrator tries to find a way to express the ideas that have in her head in a book that is writing. This issue helps her to find herself but there are some symbols like the house, the wallpaper and the widow; that are very import for her processes of find herself .