Gilman uses symbolism to give further meaning to the wallpaper, the room Jane stays in, the rest cure, and the garden she sees outside of the barred windows. The wallpaper is a symbol of entrapment. A reader could describe the wallpaper as tormenting because it is “a sulphurous yellow paper, torn off in spots, and patterned with “lame uncertain curves” that “plunge off at the outrageous angles” and “destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions”” (Gilbert and Gubar 125). The entrapment is both of the narrator and the woman Jane sees in the wallpaper, “eventually it becomes obvious to both reader and narrator that the figure creeping through and behind the wallpaper is both the narrator and the narrator’s double” (125). Jane eventually loses herself to the wallpaper. She allow her mind to trap itself into the figure she sees moving along the yellow wallpaper. She keeps this to herself until the end of the story. She doesn’t allow John to see that she is falling into a further entrapment until he comes to take her home because he believes she has gotten
Gilman uses symbolism to give further meaning to the wallpaper, the room Jane stays in, the rest cure, and the garden she sees outside of the barred windows. The wallpaper is a symbol of entrapment. A reader could describe the wallpaper as tormenting because it is “a sulphurous yellow paper, torn off in spots, and patterned with “lame uncertain curves” that “plunge off at the outrageous angles” and “destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions”” (Gilbert and Gubar 125). The entrapment is both of the narrator and the woman Jane sees in the wallpaper, “eventually it becomes obvious to both reader and narrator that the figure creeping through and behind the wallpaper is both the narrator and the narrator’s double” (125). Jane eventually loses herself to the wallpaper. She allow her mind to trap itself into the figure she sees moving along the yellow wallpaper. She keeps this to herself until the end of the story. She doesn’t allow John to see that she is falling into a further entrapment until he comes to take her home because he believes she has gotten