Question

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," who or what does the woman in the wallpaper most likely represent? all of the women the narrator wishes she could be Jane—the woman referred to at the end of the story the narrator's sister-in-law the narrator gone mad

Answer 1

The woman in the book represents the psychological problems a woman might face in that era. Her husband makes her live in a rundown house believing it would heal her. Her husband loves her in the wrong ways he doesn't necessarily want to get her better.

Answer 2

All of the women the narrator wishes she could be

Step-by-step explanation:

The lady behind the backdrop speaks to the storyteller's curbed self that she imagines as a detainee in the local circle of her life.

This lady is the appearance of the storyteller's constraint, her accommodation to the enchantment of madness spoken to by the yellow shade of the backdrop. As the storyteller discovers "things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will," she perceives the faint figure of a woman "shake the pattern, just as if she wanted to get out." Eventually, the storyteller moves toward becoming focused upon the example of the backdrop that changes with the light in the room and the assume that has all the earmarks of being caught behind the pattern.