1. The Yellow Wall-Paper: Reflection on Gender Roles
... her metamorphosis than the house itself is the room she is in, specifically the characteristics of that room, the most important being the yellow wall-paper which also plays a double role; it has the ability to trap her in with its intricacy of pattern, and leads her to satisfying end. ... that are holding in, or keeping out, our main character from her own psyche, illustrating the separation of her conflicts of herself. She describes the wall-paper as being the worst thing she has ever seen: "The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smoldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the ...
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