"The Yellow Wallpaper" Essay.

Looking back at women's role in society, women in the 1800s were usually portrayed as inferior and submissive to their husbands. "The Yellow Wallpaper," written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a short story about a woman who is psychologically ill and her husband's treatment of her. The story opens up with the family moving into a summer home to cure the narrator's illness. The story presents itself to the reader with the idea that the …

…the room, the husband's treatment of the narrator and the pattern in the wallpaper symbolizing a prison for the narrator. In the end the narrator's oppression causes the narrator to fail to stand up for herself; she becomes entranced with the wallpaper and figuratively beliefs it to be her escape. On the other hand, the narrator's face of oppression can be taken as a warning to society and that women can no longer be ignored.