There are different male influences in this woman’s life and although they may mean no harm, they eventually push her over the edge. The main character’s husband, John, and her brother are well-known physicians. They use their power to control the main character, whose name we never learn, to feel what they think a woman should feel. For example, the woman tells the men she is sick, but they believe differently. The men under the impression that what they say goes and therefore the woman has no illustrates that the men are in control. If they strongly believe nothing is wrong, then nothing must be wrong. It is a feeling of self-satisfaction the men feel when they are superior to the woman.

The main character knows John loves her, but it is the oppression she feels that bothers her so. Her husband expresses his love for her but at the same time imposes his

All of these patterns the main character sees, and the resemblance she makes to herself, lead her to try to change her life. As John’s wife discovers the meaning of the yellow wallpaper, she changes. “Life is very much exciting now than it used to be. I have something more to expect, to look forward to…” This quote describes how the main character perceives life now than what she used to, and that was conforming to her husband. By the end, the last thing the main character can do is rip up the wallpaper, and help the woman in the wall to become free. In other words to help herself to become free. She sits and waits for her husband to come to confront him, to reach her goal of freedom, to not be subdued anymore. “I’ve got out at last,” said I, “in spite of you and Jane? And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back!”

The main’s character oppression is due to her husband, but the house and specifically the room she stayed in helped her realize who she really was, and helped her find the freedom she looked for. The yellow wallpaper which covered the room disturbed her greatly. At the beginning of the story she hated the color. “The color is repellent, almost revolting, …Dull…I should hate it myself if I had to live in this room long.” Through this the woman expresses her feelings towards the room, but specifically the wallpaper. Throughout her stay at the house and as the oppression sets in even greater, she begins to see patterns in the wallpaper. The woman is engrossed in finding what this pattern is all about, what meaning it holds. She states:”…and I determine for the thousandth time that I will follow that pointless pattern to some conclusion.” The woman longed to find some kind of importance in that pattern. The woman herself has made conclusions as to what the pattern symbolized. Being

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