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[mehdiye...@box.az]

The Yellow Wallpaper'' is the best critique of lack of
women rights, and condemnation of hegemony of men. There is not doubt
that it is the common symbolic image of nineteenth century "lawless
women" and she is the woman (narrator) herself behind the yellow
wallpaper. For my opinion this wallpaper is mirror and in this mirror
she sees herself. She looks to herself from outside. There's direct
point to women writers of Middle Ages, who were limited in their
creativity; with keeping them at home, making them busy with the
housework. The woman can not speak to anyone because no one
understands her; therefore she can share her feelings only with paper.
I think the wallpaper is yellow because she writes unpleasant and
miserable sides of her life on the paper.
Wallpaper is like a cage, which lawless women are held in, and as
narrator points "with the heads of many women, all of whom were
strangled as they tried to escape" it's the problem of all women. We
can see the other female characters through the whole story; Nanny,
Mary, and John's housekeeper sister, Jennie, who are only dealt with
the house works- cleaning the house and taking care of the children.
In this story we see th