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    Caitlin Ramsey English 102 April 5‚ 2007 Chief Symbols in The Yellow Wallpaper Gender roles play a significant part in The Yellow Wallpaper‚ represented heavily by the physical yellow wallpaper in the bedroom of the summer mansion. This story‚ written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ even begins on the first page and throughout the entire story‚ the narrator portrays women in the common air of being dominated by men. Especially during this time‚ women were oppressed not only by their husbands but

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    The Yellow Wallpaper An ill woman with a husband who contains her and a decoration that haunts her. A depressed woman is married to a Doctor who says that she is not truly sick. Her husband takes her to a rental house for a few months to help her rest. The bedroom that they stay in has one specific decoration that the woman does not like‚ yellow wallpaper. The woman despises the yellow paper on the wall. She sits and watches the wallpaper for days‚ particularly at night while her husband sleeps

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    An Analysis of “The Yellow Wallpaper” “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ expresses that wasting away in solitude can eventually lead to insanity and desolation. To begin with‚ the narrator is a woman suffering from postpartum psychosis. Postpartum psychosis is a very rare illness that affects some woman shortly after they deliver their new-born babies. A brief summary of the story concludes that the narrator spends all of her time alone in self-reflection until solitude is all

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    The Yellow Wallpaper Women

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    In the short stories‚ “Cat in the Rain” and “The Yellow Wallpaper‚” both short stories describes the life of two women and their relationship with the people‚ specifically men‚ around them. In the “Cat in the Rain” it describes an American wife who develops an attraction to the hotel’s padrone as she wanders out to save a cat in the rain‚ while her husband‚ George‚ stays up stairs in the hotel room. On the contrary‚ “The Yellow Wallpaper” tells a story about a female who is trapped in a nursery

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    The Yellow Wallpaper I think The Yellow Wallpaper is a perfect example of how women feel in their roles as women. I think it’s interesting that the narrator remains anonymous throughout the story‚ which I think is symbolic for her role in society. From day one women have always disagreed with how they are treated by society‚ men‚ and just in general. I think the wallpaper is significant for many things including the structure of medication‚ family‚ marriage‚ and traditional roles women play. The

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    In Charlotte Perkins Gilmans’ The Yellow Wallpaper‚ the main theme is the oppression and repression of woman. We follow the narrator as her confinement within herself and her room slowly drive her insane. The main character is trapped by the wallpaper’s vine pattern‚ which she sees as a cage other women are stuck behind‚ just as her physician husband has trapped her in the room. There is also a gender division throughout the story. This gender division had the effect of keeping the narrator in a

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    the wallpaper represents the narrator’s livelihood and health. Throughout the story the narrator speaks all about how much she hates the wallpaper and describes it in great detail. However‚ it progressively gets worse and worse as the story goes on. The narrator begins describing the wallpaper negatively‚ but with an unsatisfactory vibe. “The color is repellent‚ almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow‚ strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.” (Gilman 1) At this point in the story‚ the

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    Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses her short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" to make determined statements about feminism and individuality. Gilman does so by taking the reader through the terrors of one woman’s neurosis‚ her entire mental state characterized by her encounters with the wallpaper in her room. Much of this story is centered on eerie descriptions of the yellow wallpaper and the woman’s obsessive interactions with it. It is important‚ though‚ to understand that although the plot is primarily

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    In Charlotte Gillman’s tragic short story “The Yellow Wallpaper”‚ Gillman skillfully creates a living world to highlight the importance of self-expression. Strongly written in a first-person narration point of view‚ the reader is able to understand the thoughts and actions from a specific character. By writing in this point of view the readers are able to get a more realistic perspective towards the deterioration of the narrators state of mind‚ and are introduced to a more developed plot. The authors

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    When analyzing The Yellow Wallpaper and The Necklace‚ the understanding of the psychological aspect is extremely significant to fully comprehend the plots and themes. The psychological outlook affects how the reader views the protagonist‚ explains the occurrences of the events in the story‚ or may hinge on what narrator says and the reader understands? In The Yellow Wallpaper‚ the outlook of the protagonist mind is on a gradual degradation into insanity. The reader’s understanding of the psychological

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