"Gaining Freedom" "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Gilman is a sad story of the repression that women face in the days of late 1800's as well as being representative of the turmoil’s that women face today. Gilman writes "The Yellow Wallpaper" from her own personal experiences of having to face the overwhelming fact that this is a male dominated society and how women suffer because of it. The narrator, being female, is suffering from …showed first 75 words of 1067 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1067 total…s liberation. The cost of the narrator’s freedom was a price too many women had to pay. Gilman’s symbolism illustrates a period of time where women struggled for more equality. Most women lost the struggle and it took many years for them to reap the benefits of their cause. The woman in this story realizes that she is able to think for herself, and consequently she is dragged into the depths of insanity.