The Yellow Wallpaper

In the story The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

What is unusual about the yellow wallpaper?

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In the story, wallpaper, a usually feminine, floral decoration on the interior of walls, is a symbol of female imprisonment within the domestic sphere. Over the course of the story, the wallpaper becomes a text of sorts through which the narrator exercises her literary imagination and identifies with a feminist double figure.

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