... a very strong will, because no matter how hard she tries, the nails will not budge, and the bed will stay in its place, because the real thing that must be changed are the ideals of this male-dominated society. Another symbol in this story is the yellow wallpaper from which the title is taken. The narrator, having absolutely nothing else to do, stares constantly at a pattern ... in the wallpaper, and finds relief from her monotonous days and nights by writing in a journal. In every few paragraphs, she analyzes the wallpaper. By looking deeper into ... rest, confinement, and seclusion to...

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... a few different elements of the setting that contributes to the story. The central symbol is the yellow wallpaper, I believe Gilman was trying to use the woman stuck in the wallpaper to symbolize the social position women played in society at the time. Gilman tries to show how women felt trapped and needed to "creep" when men were not looking. This also ran parallel to the narrator's life in the fact that the narrator felt trapped under he ... husband's care and felt the need to ... ...

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