The Yellow Wallpaper Response

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“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, illustrates a woman who must put aside her own feelings and thoughts, because society has had a great influence on her and has made her believe that her husband is in charge and whatever he says goes, she has no right to question his authority. “And she is all the time trying to climb through that pattern-it strangles so; I think that is why it has so many heads” (Gilman 775). Society has a disapproval of women expressing themselves. So women have no freedom of self-expression for the simple reasons that society prohibits it. Men are afraid that if they allow their wives to express themselves they would seem less of a man. But even so, women express themselves. They wrote about things that