In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by, Charlotte Perkins Stetson, symbolism plays an important part in portraying the theme of the story, which is how women are always the oppressed one in a relationship. “The Yellow Wallpaper” opens with the narrator stating how she is being kept in a summer house where she is not allowed to do anything except rest because of her condition. While in the house, her husband, John, dominates her and controls every decision she makes. At the end of the story, the narrator has gone totally insane from being trapped in the house and rips the yellow wallpaper that she is obsessed with off the walls. When her husband, John, finds the destroyed room he faints and the narrator states, “But he did, and right across my path by
