... her opinions. One can interpret the wallpaper as being symbolic of all that is oppressive to women and that the figures in the wallpaper symbolized women being stuck in traditional roles. That would explain why the narrator was so revolted by the color and how she tore down portions of it. The reader could also be left believing that the narrator hung herself at the end of the story. This symbolized her ... escape from the male imposed oppression that squelched her free ... into madness is a story with deep feminist undertones. These undertones encourage women to change the paradigm bec...

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