Charlotte Perkins Gilman writes in “The Yellow Wallpaper” about a mentally ill woman whose imagination makes the yellow wallpaper vivid. Walled-in in her disease, she is isolated and alone. During her weeks in the room with the wallpaper its optical properties occupy her completely and she finds company in a woman who takes her solitude away. The wallpaper represents her illness and limited liberty. She lives in a male dominated society, and her husband and her brother tell her what to do. She is the woman in the wallpaper who tries to escape. If she can find symmetry in the pattern, she will discover the way to escape her conditions.

The woman who narrates is the woman in the wallpaper and she tries to escape the male dominated society. Her husband John and her brother decide what she has to do. She is not allowed to write, because she ostensibly sick. However, the capability of writing is evidence of her sanity. She “disagree[s] with their ideas” (1658) and thinks that she sh

The woman is not alone with her struggle for getting respected. She sees many heads and eyes in the wallpaper. These faces personify the multitude of women getting ready to support her goal. Whenever she looks out of the window, and it does not matter through which one, she always sees women. They are creeping in order not to be seen, and they creep at night, not by daylight; they have to work secretly. The women she sees through the windows are fast. That means that they are strong enough and ready to follow her. She says that there are “sisters on the stairs” (1661) and that there are figures taking shape where the wallpaper is “faded: (1661). She indicates that a possibility to change her situation does exist. She is the only on who “get[s] the wom[e]n out at night” (1667). She is about to lead her women’s movement to success.

The woman looks for a loophole by trying to put all the faces in the wallpaper in “order” (1660). She tries to organize the women in order to escape their situation. The wallpaper is the impediment she has to destroy

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