Yellow Wallpaper Symbolism

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options were reduced and controlled by men. As the narrator is looking out the window she could see that the garden is an obvious symbol of the world, or civilization, and the use of the “unexplained” shows how there are many option towards a better life, but no one has explained those options and the choices that women have are undiscovered to them. Looking out of the window, the woman describes the bay and a secretive dock belonging to the estate as a suggestion to the unexplored territory of womankind’s abilities. The secretive estate is signifying the sections of civilization prohibited to women. At other moments, the narrator thought the image of people passing by in the many roadways and arbors is the suggestion of women finding the acts of men, and understanding that those duties are not beyond their potential. Finally, the windows represent the woman’s potential to flourish in society and the trapped feeling of wanting to gain independence.
In other words, the window ...

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