An Analysis of "The Yellow Wallpaper" <Tab/>One of the most inspiring short stories I have read was "The Yellow Wallpaper", written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In this story Gilman uses the narrator's postpartum depression as a way to disguise the point she is trying to make. The symbolism of "The Yellow Wallpaper" can be recognized right away. In most literary works the problems or views of society are often included. …showed first 75 words of 1216 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1216 total…the paper off the walls. When her husband sees this he is confused, and she tells him he can't put her back and that she has got out at last. He faints in her path and she just keeps stepping over him, as if to say, nothing he can do can stop her. At the end of the story the narrator is directing her own life and in reality today, women are doing the same.