In the “Yellow Wallpaper” Gilman writes about a summer house they are temporarily owning, which is full of symbolism throughout the story. Well, this awful wallpaper and this nursery upstairs, where they draft is heavy, Gilman has to stay up here to cure her disease. All of these things, the wallpaper, the nursery, and her disease, are all symbolism used in the story. The disease is symbolic because it shows that there is definitely something wrong with her, but they are just ignorant and won’t listen to what Gilman is trying to tell them. “Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good” (Gilman 1). This shows that she is actually trying to get her sanity back, but what is she to do if they keep telling
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Telling her she is wrong about her condition and how it could help, but she is a woman, and back then women didn’t have the right to have a backbone. “But John says if I feel so, I shall neglect proper self-control;” (Gilman 1). “I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children” (Gilman 2). “Little Children”! This shows he is treating her like a child, because it states so right here. “I lie here in this great immovable bed -- it is nailed down, I believe” (Gilman 4). He has the bed nailed down. No adult person needs to have a bed nailed down unless they are being treated like a child, in which Gilman is. Another way the nursery shows that John is treating her like a baby is the fact that he just won’t let her take a walk. John is getting upset because she won’t let this go, but if you treat her like a child, she is going to act like a child, in which she kind of does. She does so when she just keeps throwing a fit about having this condition, but John won’t believe her because of how she is handling it, but she is handling it this way because of John’s doing. “I did not make out a very good case of myself, for I was crying before I had finished” (Gilman 5). She is acting like a little kid because I don’t know a grown adult who would start crying to get their way. “‘What is it little girl --’” (Gilman
Telling her she is wrong about her condition and how it could help, but she is a woman, and back then women didn’t have the right to have a backbone. “But John says if I feel so, I shall neglect proper self-control;” (Gilman 1). “I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children” (Gilman 2). “Little Children”! This shows he is treating her like a child, because it states so right here. “I lie here in this great immovable bed -- it is nailed down, I believe” (Gilman 4). He has the bed nailed down. No adult person needs to have a bed nailed down unless they are being treated like a child, in which Gilman is. Another way the nursery shows that John is treating her like a baby is the fact that he just won’t let her take a walk. John is getting upset because she won’t let this go, but if you treat her like a child, she is going to act like a child, in which she kind of does. She does so when she just keeps throwing a fit about having this condition, but John won’t believe her because of how she is handling it, but she is handling it this way because of John’s doing. “I did not make out a very good case of myself, for I was crying before I had finished” (Gilman 5). She is acting like a little kid because I don’t know a grown adult who would start crying to get their way. “‘What is it little girl --’” (Gilman