In The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the most prominent symbols and the most important ones are, the dominant male, the journal, and the yellow wallpaper who help characterize the protagonists as an oppressed individual that has been pushed from depression into madness. Gilman evidently suggests that the narrator's solitary confinement and exclusion from the public results in her own path to insanity. The protagonist's tone throughout the story changes from nave and depressed to ... paranoid and excited, and as she grows crazy, her sentences reflect the state ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate