sees herself. She feels very alone. The main character states I am afraid, but I dont care-there is something strange about the house-I can feel it. This explains how she feels about herself, that something is wrong, she can feel it. These feelings are directly connected to oppositional nature of her husband.The rest of the story conveys in great detail the symbolism of the yellow wallpaper, its contribution to her depression. The wallpaper seems to represent the main characters husband. The wallpaper, as I said before, is torn off in spots, and it sticketh closer than a brother-they must have had perseverance as well as hatred. She continues This wallpaper has a sub-pattern in a different shade, a particularly irritating one, for you can only see it in certain lights, and not clearly then. This mirrors the way she feels about her relationship with her husband, how he controls her every move, and the way he smothers her. In direct contrast is the pattern in the wallpaper which represents the main character and her marriage. The faint figure behind seemed to shake the pattern, just as if she wanted to get out. The main character continues Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around very fast, and her crawling shakes all over. The description of the patterns in the yellow wallpaper represent a constant struggle in an unhappy marriage and the main characters desire to leave the relationship, but reflect her inability to do so. Consequently, she becomes extremely depressed.In conclusion, The Yellow Wallpaper is a very symbolic story, representative of life in the late 1800s, and the struggle for women to be heard. This story is written about the life and experiences of one individual, her pain, opposition, and depression, but can be expanded to represent the struggle for freedom for all women during that era....
