The Yellow Wallpaper...REACTION

In the story, The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman the marriage of the narrator and her husband, John. Their relationship seems to be very different from today's marriages because John is almost overbearing of the narrator. He wants to control every aspect of her life and he wants to make sure she is taken care of and healthy. The fact that he placed her in a nursery while she was sick gives off the impression that he is treating her like a parent would treat a child. I believe that this tendency to baby her is due to the unfortunate truth that women weren't socially accepted as dominant figures during this time of place in the story. He believes that she is a child that needs to be taken care of and controlled. This reaction shows that women were not treated equally as men in this time period, which further explores the concept of feminism. The narrator is treated feebly and is not allowed to think for herself or do what she wants to do. In other words, she is being repressed.
The subject of repression brings me to conclude that the yellow wallpaper symbolizes just that: Repression. I think this because the narrator spoke of the woman creeping behind the hideous yellow pattern of the wallpaper and how she was rattling or shaking the "bars" back and forth. This means that the woman was being held back by the theory that women were incapable of surviving without men. I also think that the woman could represent the narrator because she is being repressed by her husband and the social trends of this time period.
The narrator even sympathizes with the woman behind the wallpaper when she believes to see the woman "creeping" in the daylight on page 15, "I don't blame her a bit. It must be very humiliating to be caught creeping by daylight!" Then, at the end of the story on page 18, she actually is caught creeping by her husband and she says to him, "'I've got out at last,' said I, 'in spite of you and Jennie. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!'" This shows that the narrator sees herself as the woman behind the yellow wallpaper. She is acting like the woman because she relates to the repression the woman is going through. The narrator is being held back mostly by her husband and the time period, while the creeping woman is contained by the yellow wallpaper.