Women In The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Gilman’s support of the women’s suffrage is written all in the story “The Yellow Wallpaper”. She uses many symbols to emphasis the woman’s struggle of equality in the 1900’s. The husband takes her away from society because of illness, while she tells him that she is fine. This the symbolic for the women in the 1900’s that were struggling for equality. From them being ignored and oppressed by men. In the story, john isn’t allowing his wife to be able to fix herself and get better. “But John says the very worst thing I can do is to think about my condition”. This shows that when women try to get free and be something else the men oppress over them and take control. During the nineteenth century, woman had been retained to not being able to work and not have an opinion about be able to do so. The pattern in the wallpaper is one of the creepy woman that jane sees outside the window. "'I've got out at last,' said I, 'in spite of you and …show more content…
In the 19th century society was different compare what it is today. Woman were not in the workforce as men were, they weren’t able to vote, and they didn’t have the right to speak for themselves. In the story “The Yellow Wallpaper” Gilman gives the readers the covey of wanting to change how woman are treated but she also gives symbols in the story as well. In the story, Gilman uses the symbols of showing the lack of restriction on women, the lack of public interaction, and the equality of woman. Also in the story, the narrator world is where he controls everything that she does. She is not allowed to be how to pleases and be the creative person that she is. All the symbols in the story are to enforce and show on woman were not giving the opportunity to be free and how man were always over them. “The Yellow Wallpaper” was to emphasize that woman should be able to be themselves and express themselves and have the opportunity to do something they