... which serve as a constant reminder of Edna's symbolic "encagment. This theme of "encagment" is analogous to the notion of entrapment that runs rampant through the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper". Both characters experience an epiphany which compounds their individualized self- realization that like the women in the wall and the bird in the cage they are trapped by oppressive husbands who consider their wives" problems as deficiencies of temperament ... . Chopin juxtaposes Edna and the caged parrot, mentioned at the beginning of the novel, wherein the parrot may digress from the norms ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate