Symbolism: Reading between the lines of The Yellow Wallpaper

     Symbolism: the practice of representing things by symbols. Multiple symbols throughout The Yellow Wallpaper, are used to express the inequality during the late 1800's between men and women. In the 1800's, the dominance of the male Society left women trudging their way through life. I feel as though Jane knew the real reason John had kept her in that room with the disgusting yellow wallpaper. As some people know, the color yellow represents illness and weakness. John sees Jane and the wallpaper as one. Jane describes the wallpaper with multiple metaphors and similes. She wrote, "The color is hideous enough, unreliable enough, infuriating enough." This quote is the same/similar to the way men saw women in the late 1800's. On top of Jane already feeling lower than men, she is placed and trapped in a room that radiates and reminds her of men and their opinions of women. Gilman refuses to be seen as the wallpaper or even compared to it. Jane wants to be recognized for intelligence and eventually, prove that women are just as great, if not better than men. Jane's mental illness prevents her from being able to pursue what she truly wants to achieve for all women everywhere. 
     Jane continues to stay at the summer house with John. In text Jane explains, John and her brother are physicians. Both physicians choose to ignore the fact Jane is truly suffering from mental illness. All men desperately wanted to have power over women. For example, they let Jane drowned in her own sickness. In all fairness, I don't think men were truly right back then either. Their minds were programmed to abuse women, physically and mentally. Reading between the lines is important when reading The Yellow Wallpaper. As you read and look over the story, symbolism is lurking around and waiting for you to notice the main point of the story. The symbolism in The Yellow Wallpaper is simply screaming and telling you about women being treated unfairly by men and most importantly, people everywhere.

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