Tears of Freedom: This image represents what I believe to be the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” cry of freedom. In the beginning of the story, the narrator compares the yellow wallpaper to bars, typically prison cells have bars, so the narrator is referring to the four walls she is locked in as a prison, she’s trapped. The narrator tearing up the wallpaper was a way of her saying that she will no longer be held captive or be treated like a child by neither her husband nor anyone else, thus beginning her path to freedom, which is to retrieve her sanity, that her husband and everyone else tore away from her.

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