Character In "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

        The short story 'The Yellow Wall-Paper' written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a cry for freedom. This story is about a woman who fights for her right to express what she feels, and fights for her right to do what she wants to do. The narrator in this short story is a woman whose husband loves her very much, but oppresses her to the point where she cannot take it anymore. This story revolves around …

…up the wallpaper, and help the woman in the wall to become free. In other words to help herself to become free. She sits and waits for her husband to come home to confront him, to reach her goal of freedom, to not be subdued anymore. 'I've got out at last,' said I, 'in spite of you and Jane? And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!'(516)