f antagonistic thought;Aching within, each hour,A sense of wasting power.A house with roof so darkly lowThe heavy rafters shut the sunlight out;One cannot stand erect without a blow;Until the soul insideCries for a grave-more wide...(318)Just as in The Yellow Wallpaper, this poem gives insight to the urgency and hopelessness of women who feel the duty to be submissive. This woman is being dominated by her husband merely because she is sick. She is put into a room that she doesnt like and every time she expresses that to her husband, he ignores her. She finally overpowers him. She sees eyes in the wallpaper. They are her eyes. She rips the wallpaper off the wall to let herself out and be the woman she wants to be. Her husband fainted at the sight of it all and she crawled over him, overcoming his dominance.Anne J Lane quotes Gilman in To Herland and Beyond. Womens subordination will only end when women lead the struggle for their own autonomy, therby freeing men as well as themselves, because men suffer from the distortions that come from dominance, just as women are scared by the subjugation imposed upon them(5). Works CitedGilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wallpaper. Fiction. Eds. Trimmer, Joseph F., and Wade A. Jennings. 4th Edition. New York: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1998 117-128Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. In Duty Bound Charlotte Perkins Gilman Herland, The Yellow Wallpaper, and Selected Writings. Ed. Denise B Knight. New York: Peguin Books Ltd, 1999.Lane, Anne J. To Herland and Beyond. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990...
