Part one of term paper
The story, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, follows the day-to-day life of a woman on the verge of insanity. One must take a closer look at the symbolism through out the story in order to understand the true meaning of the story. The symbolism present in The Yellow Wallpaper portrays a woman oppressed by male dominance in ...

Part two of term paper
... in the introduction as “a haunted house…. Still I proudly declare that there is something queer about it” (p. 630). This shows that from the beginning, the narrator can see something is wrong with this house. Her husband responds to her discomfort of the house as a father would respond to a child. “John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in a marriage.” This shows that women were not taken serious and their opinions were merely laughed at. One part of the house that could ...