There are many possible themes to
The Yellow Wallpaper (1899). When Charlotte Gilman thinks she starts to find out more about this wallpaper she says "The faint figure behind seemed to shake the pattern, as if she wanted to get out"(6). One of these several themes is that the women that Charlotte Gilman is seeing in this Yellow Wallpaper is herself. Their are multiple reasoning's behind this, one is that she has so much time to stare at that wall. She could become busy by working but her husband (John) and her brother were physicians and they told her she couldn't, said Charlotte "Absolutely forbidden to 'work' until [she is] well again"(1). So she sits in front of the yellow wallpaper all day. Another way to look at this is her being bored and needing something to do all day, eventually each day Charlotte starts to see more and more of a women and each day she sees more of herself going insane and she doesn't even realize it.
The Yellow Wallpaper (1899) is a complex story with many themes and meanings to it but this is one of the main ones.
http://www.gradesaver.com/the-yellow-wallpaper/study-guide/major-themes/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yellow_Wallpaper
This is the women is the yellow wallpaper that Charlotte Gilman was seeing. Which was really herself being trapped.
Theme: A subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic
