In “The Yellow Wallpaper” Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses symbolism to explain the purpose of the wallpaper and why it is one of the greatest symbols in the story. The narrator is part of the symbolism of the background and why he takes away such an important part in the story. The women trapped behind the wallpaper explain the mental block that men attempted to impose on women. “The yellow wallpaper” is a symbol of the restrictions placed on women, the fight for equality, and the possibilities of the female sex during the 1800s. Charlotte Perkins Gilman prepares her readers to experience many life problems that the narrator is going through telling his story firsthand. However, most have no idea what women went through in the 1800s. WomenThe idea he gives in his article is based on the fact that Gilman does not have the same vision as the novel “Jasmine”. There is depression in one and freedom in the other, but the comparison both have is simply about women trying to regain freedom. Women's equality was a big issue for women back then, especially when, in a situation explained in "The Yellow Wallpaper", the narrator doesn't understand that she is the one trapped behind the wallpaper behind those bars. Nadkarni explains, "the story traces the narrator's growing madness and concern with the wallpaper of his sick room and ends with his identification with the woman he sees "crawling" (55) behind the "bars" (52) of the prison model" (219). She discovers the narrator as a crazy woman who does not understand that who she discovers behind the wallpaper is she who reflects; it is she who escapes from her miserable life. In her article, Nadkarni feels that Gilman is “suggesting that “the white, female, intellectual class subjectivity that Gilman's narrator attempts to construct, and to which many feminists have also committed themselves perhaps unconsciously, is a subjectivity whose illusory unity , as the unity imposed on the newspaper is based on the repression of difference” (220). Nadkarni's article explains women's struggle for equality and the struggle to make gains. While she is in this room, her health gets worse and worse but her husband thinks it is. is getting better and that he is just imagining things. In John S. Bak's article, he explains the room as a drain on women's lives because having locked this room and having no options to leave can, "reduce an artistic, articulate woman to a beast, completely devoid of sanity mental and humanity and left to crawl on all fours in a circle, or smooch around the room" (Bak 39-40). Elain Hedges on interpreting feminism and how it portrays the background that lives inside the narrator as a spirit. Hedges observed in 1973 that "the document symbolizes her situation as seen by the men who control her and therefore her situation as seen by herself (Afterword 51), a view echoed by later critics" (Bak 40). Hedges also said, "'The Yellow Wallpaper,' then, became a feminist text that pointed to the men responsible for the narrator's physical isolation and subsequent mental death" (Bak 40). Another writer in Bak's article has his own take on the wallpaper's symbolism, "but this is also a room not unlike the one described by Michel Foucault in Discipline and Punish (1975), modeled on Jeremy's eighteenth-century Panopticon Bentham" (Bak 40). In Bak's article, as you can see, they are there