Symbolisms of oppression in Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"

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February 6, 2014

 

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The protagonist sees what she is "quite sure it is a woman" (538) trapped behind the wallpaper. The woman changes by day and night. "By daylight she is subdued, quiet" (539), however, "at night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it [the wallpaper] becomes bars! The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be...
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"By daylight she is subdued, quiet" (539), however, "at night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it [the wallpaper] becomes bars! The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be." (538). The protagonist sees a woman who represents every Victorian woman, a woman who must be proper and quiet, still and subdued...
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