n “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, there’s a woman who is ill but when she tells her husband she is quickly dismissed and told she does not understand. As she walks us through the story, the reader can understand that without the ability to express oneself, one can quickly lose mental stability. Charlotte Gilman supports this idea by using symbols like the wallpaper and how it affected her and uses lots of repetition to emphasize her feelings. One of the most important symbols throughout the story is the wallpaper itself. At the beginning of the story, Gilman shows us the wife slowly becoming more interested in the wallpaper. Shortly after she notices it, she becomes obsessed and wants to understand what it means. When she …show more content…
But because her husband will not change it and laughs at her for not liking it, she feels trapped and unable to express her wants within the house. Which leads to her just ripping the wallpaper off the wall to finally free her mind and have peace. Throughout the story, Gilman uses repetition to show how trapped the wife feels by her husband. she continuously uses phrases like “what am I to do”. For example, "You see he does Gossage 2 not believe I am sick! And what can one do?", "Personally, I disagree with their ideas. But what is one to do?", the wife says this consistently in the story to reiterate that she feels ignored and unable to express what she truly wants. And that while her husband might mean well she still feels trapped within her own body. The reader can see a slow change in character as she stops repeating phrases that restrict what she can and cannot do. She slowly becomes more confident leading up to the end of the story, where the wife finally does what she has wanted to; rip down the wallpaper. Midway as she's ripping down the wallpaper her husband comes inside and sees her ripping it down. When he sees her he passes out from fear. He believes that she shouldn't