![]() ![]() Aside from the postpartum depression she is battling with, the yellow wallpaper in this story serves as a symbol of a feminist oppression experienced by most women during her time, as she feels that her creativity has been limited by the mores of society in the 19 th century. Doing a balancing act of being a mother and wife is sometimes too much too handle for a woman, what more if she is being prevented from expressing herself through writing? This is exactly what the unnamed woman in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” (2002) is experiencing in the story. Being a wife and a mother at the same time can bestow a lot of stress to a woman who is just starting up to fill those shoes. ![]()
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