Yellow wallpaper the representation of Charlotte Gilman/Jane.

           In The Yellow Wallpaper (1899), Charlotte Gilman (Jane) goes mentally insane because of a yellow wallpaper. The yellow wallpaper is symbolizing society of men and women and the women inside is Jane/Charlotte/the society of women. They are all being imprisoned from not being able to do the many things that the men can do. They do not have rights so men are in charge of them. The whole story she has been going insane trying to figure out what is wrong with this wallpaper that she hates it so much, suddenly she becomes obsessed with it and loves it so much that no one else can touch it until she figures it out. Society in general is the wall because it is ugly and is distorted but on the inside is a women who is locked up in this ugly and distorted society and cannot do anything about it because she is a women. I think that the windows symbolize the future because they say "I am angry enough to do something desperate. To jump out of the windows out be admirable exercise, but the bars are too strong even to try"(11). I predict that the windows are future because she thought the future would be strong especially with women's right, they wont have any. She says "There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down"(3). I came to the conclusion that this part of the wallpaper is the messed up men in this world that don't think women should have the same rights that they do.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/liselle.htm Here are some of the same ideas that I had.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fbailbondsdallastx.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F02%2Fjail.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fbailbondsdallastx.com%2Ffive-steps-to-arrange-for-bail-while-in-jail%2F&h=1185&w=1620&tbnid=e5zUf8DTe64VnM%3A&zoom=1&docid=1Ld6y4HhWsJ0XM&ei=GUk4U-yuL8jF0QH5n4FA&tbm=isch&ved=0CG4QhBwwAw&iact=rc&dur=644&page=1&start=0&ndsp=8 This is where I found the picture below.

this picture is representing her behind the bars of society.

symbolism:the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.