Clearly, the wallpaper represents the structure of family, medicine, and tradition in which the narrator finds herself trapped. Wallpaper is domestic and humble, and Gilman skillfully uses this nightmarish, hideous paper as a symbol of the domestic life that traps so many women.
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What does the yellow wallpaper symbolize?
Clearly, the wallpaper represents the structure of family, medicine, and tradition in which the narrator finds herself trapped. Wallpaper is domestic and humble, and Gilman skillfully uses this nightmarish, hideous paper as a symbol of the domestic life that traps so many women.
What is the main character in The Yellow Wallpaper?
The Woman in the Wallpaper
What is the significance of the color yellow in the Yellow Wallpaper?
The wallpaper symbolizes the mental block mean attempted to place on women during the 1800s. The color yellow is often associated with sickness or weakness, and the narrator’s mysterious illness is an example of the male oppression on the narrator.
What medical symptom does the narrator frequently complain of in the yellow wallpaper?
The Yellow Wallpaper The “Nervous” Diseases and Hysteria: Medical Predecessors to Neurasthenia. In the “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the narrator is diagnosed with neurasthenia, a disease characterized by so-called “nervous exhaustion” and extreme excitability.
What is the significance of the yellow color and strange smell of the wallpaper?
In The Yellow Wall Paper the narrator mentions a yellow smell that seems to follow her and goes throughout the house. This symbolizes her sanity and how her mind has completely taken over her senses which is leading her to becoming insane.
How would the yellow wallpaper change if it were told from a different character’s perspective?
How would “The Yellow Wallpaper” change if it were told from a different character’s perspective? A. The setting of the story would be different because the other characters move from place to place within the story. The reader would get more information about how the main character’s actions look to another character.
How does the narrator describe the wallpaper once she begins to feel better?
The speaker begins to feel irritated with her husband and wishes he would “take another room.” She believes the pattern in the wallpaper is a woman trying to get out, and she wants to free her. When the speaker starts to feel better, she describes the wallpaper at interesting.
What type of character is the narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper?
storyteller
What does the narrator believe she sees underneath the wallpaper’s main pattern?
The sub-pattern now clearly resembles a woman who is trying to get out from behind the main pattern. By the end, the narrator is hopelessly insane, convinced that there are many creeping women around and that she herself has come out of the wallpaper—that she herself is the trapped woman.