{draw:frame} Furthermore, John’s domineering ways has imprisoned the narrator into a domestic sphere. Ever since John became aware of her wife’s temporary nervous depression, he isolates her from everyone including her child. He brings her to a “colonial mansion, a hereditary estate” (Gilman, Pg.102). The narrator is trapped in a room that is spacious but no less than a prison; “... It would be the heave bedstead, and then the barred window...” (Gilman, Pg.105). Barred windows symbolize the bars of the prison which clearly indicates that the narrator’s room is a prison. “I lie here on this great immovable bed – it is nailed down, I believe – and follow that pattern about by the hour” (Gilman, pg. 108). Everything in the mansion is locked away as in a prison much like she is held captive in her own room. The description of the mansion seems as if the mansion is designed for men symbolizing their power as the mansion is hereditary. This again illustrates the oppression of women. Besides the structure of the mansion, the narrator is under constant surveillance of her husband and Jennie. “I must not let her [Jennie] find me writing.” (Gilman, Pg.107) The narrator fears that she might get caught writing her diary as she is forbidden to write. She is forced into a helpless position and is imprisoned within her room. Reference List: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “The Yellow Wall Paper”. Inside Stories for Senior Students. Kirland. Glen and Richard Davies, ed. Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch. Canada. Toronto: 1993 Lane, Anne J. To Herland and Beyond. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990