... confined all summer. Adding her feeling that there is something strange or even spooky about the estate, she thinks she sees people walking about the numerous paths, "mysterious deep-shaded arbors," and gnarly trees. But what later becomes an obsession is the "sickly," "unclean," yellow wallpaper that covers the walls of the big, airy upstairs room her husband has unilaterally chosen for them. He, however, assures her ... to notice that John and Jane seem rather "queer" as of late. "I am getting a little afraid of John." If the pattern represents the state of her mind, then, yes, by now...

• Word Count: 1709
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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 ... ...

• Word Count: 729
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate