Wallpaper", is a great example of the effect of the

pressures of society placed on women of her time. In

this time period, women had enough boundaries and

limitations to drive them crazy. This character

illustrates the maltreatment of women in this period

of American history. Women were seen as objects;

something used to please men, bear children, and look

pretty. She is a nameless character to demonstrate the

fact the she is representing all women who suffered

from this oppression. It is not the yellow wallpaper

that drives this woman insane, it is the men and the

role they created for women of her time that drives

her crazy.

When the woman first arrives in her new bedroom, she

writes about the wallpaper. "It is dull enough to

confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to

constantly irritate and provoke...