The Yellow Wallpaper: Exemplifies Women's Position In the 19th Century Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, The Yellow Wallpaper, exemplifies a woman's position in 19th-century American society. With the use of symbolism, Gilman is able to provide a metaphorical scene comparing the narrator's predicament within the story and the social understandings of women during the 19thcentury era. The continuous use of analogy most evidently portrays the relationship of gender roles in American society and within the story. It displays this relationship in terms of a dominant and submissive