'Women's Confinement In The Yellow Wallpaper'

The story is titled “The Yellow Wall- Paper”, and indeed, the dreadful wallpaper that the narrator comes to hate so much is a significant symbol in the story. The yellow wallpaper can represent many ideas and conditions, among them, the sense of entrapment, the notion of creativity gone astray, and a distraction that becomes an obsession. Examine the references to the yellow wallpaper and one notices how they become more frequent and how they develop over the course of the story. Why is the wallpaper an adequate symbol to represent the women’s confinement and her emotional condition? The wallpaper is definitely an adequate symbol to represent the woman’s confinement and her emotional condition, due to the restraint her husband has placed