Single women are meant to have gender specific jobs like nurses or teachers. Mothers are represented at women who don't have to much of the child rearing as that is the nurse maids job. To be obedient and never question anything. What is the role of women in the text? How are mothers represented? What about single/independent women? What is important about women-in the historical context? The role of the women in the text is to be a good wife and listen to everything your husband tells you. That although she may have lost her mind to escape, all other women are still stuck.
Also the husband faintly when ironically only women are supposed to faint. So she is out of the wallpaper but now stuck in a room. She is crawling, circling around the room at the end. Why does it end the way it does? Distressing as the conflict is not entirely resolved. Symbols: the bed: no excitement, only a procreative function (was nailed down chained a mother's role), wallpaper: tears down the wallpaper, represents the things holding women back from being free, the window bars, control over women, the moon: that she is able to be herself and come out at night & that all the moon does is reflects the suns (husband/male) light Does The Yellow Wallpaper end the way you expected? No thought she might hang herself with the roe, references to standing on stuff as well. That we must be vigilant in questioning the ideals of society that everyone must have equality for if they don't craziness will ensue. What are some themes in The Yellow Wallpaper? Symbols? How do they relate to the plot and the characters? Theme is that women (even today) must cover up their identities to fit in with society's roles for them as wife, mother, cook, cleaner, car driver, etc.
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