In the 19th century, society was different from today's. More specifically, women's society was far from modern times. Women were not part of the workforce, could not vote or even have a say in anything. Women could not testify in court, nor did they have the right to speak publicly before an audience. When a woman married, her husband legally owned everything she had. If he died, she would only be entitled to a third of her husband's estate. Charlotte Perkins Gilman wanted to change this, and in doing so, she would give women a voice through symbols in her short story "The Yellow Wallpaper." She wanted people to understand the struggle of women in the 19th century. In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the author uses symbols to show the restrictions on women, the lack of public interaction, and the fight for equality in the 19th century. For starters, “The Yellow Wallpaper” itself is one of the greatest symbols in the world. history. It can be interpreted to symbolize many things about the narrator. The color yellow is often associated with illness or weakness, and the narrator's mysterious illness is an example of male oppression over the narrator. In fact, the wallpaper makes the narrator increasingly "sick" as the story progresses. The yellow wallpaper, of which the writer declares: "I never saw worse paper in my life" (Perkins) is a symbol of the mental screen that men have attempted to impose on women. Perkins writes: "The color is horrible enough, unreliable enough and maddening enough, but the pattern is torturing", this is a symbolic metaphor for the restrictions placed on women. The author is saying that men's denial of equality to women is a "horrendous" act, and that when men appear to grant women some measure of that equality, it is... middle of the paper. .. ...restrictive bonds of society, men humiliate and impose the idea of ​​being inferior, almost to the point of brainwashing them. Finally, in "The Yellow Wallpaper", Charlotte Gilman Perkins uses various symbols to show the oppression of women by men, and the ongoing struggle to escape their oppression. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is an indication of the mental restrictions placed on women by men during the 1800s. Perkins shows that women's possibilities are as good as men's and that during the 19th century those possibilities were severely limited. The writer sees other acts that she could perform on her own, just as women see acts of men that they could perform with the same level of ability. Overall, "The Yellow Wallpaper" gave women an insight into the oppression placed upon them by humanity and gave them a whole new voice to escape that disaster..