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 …
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…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.