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The title itself, The Yellow Wallpaper, is symbolizing the role men play in a patriarchal society, where men are the more dominant sex, and how women are "trapped" in a life of male control. For instance, At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all moonlight, it becomes bars!"(Gilman 211) This shows how the narrator feels trapped by the paper. Another symbol that refers to the role women play is, "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 213) This is meaning that if a women tried to play a role in society she was just not taken seriously, o
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