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Symbolism And “the Yellow Wallpaper“ In the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gillman, symbolism plays a large factor. The narrator uses the wallpaper in her room to represent herself. In the story the woman is suffering from Post-Pardom Depression following the birth of her son. Her husband, John, is a doctor and he feels that nothing is wrong with her. He brings her to an old house in the country and prescribes that she do hardly anything but rest. The narrator loves to write, but this enjoyable task is forbidden to her by her husband. John does nothing short of confining the narrator to an upstairs nursery that has been transformed into a bedroom. The narrator complains adamantly about the wallpaper in the room. John refuses to change the paper, citing that it only fuels her condition by giving into the fancies in her head. Upon being forced to contend with this paper the narrator begins to study it. She finds the pattern to be very askewer. At first she hates it because it lacks definition and is, in her eyes, an yellow, wallpaper, narrator, paper, woman, story, mind, john, husband, trapped, symbolizes, short, room, rest, pattern, own, nothing, jumps, internal, herself, free, finally, end, confines, broken, behind, begins, around, wrong, write, within, wins, wanting