The most important symbol is the description of the wallpaper in the couple's villa. According to the narrator's senses, the wallpaper in the house symbolizes something that tends to disturb her directly. This could be that she feels that her husband is avoiding her and feels that because he is a doctor, everything he says is right or that she really does have a disorder and is trying to find ways to seek help. As a result, the background develops its symbolism throughout the story. At first it just looks unpleasant: it is torn, dirty and a “dirty yellow”. The worst part is the seemingly formless pattern, which fascinates the narrator as he tries to understand how it is organized. After staring at the paper for hours, he sees a ghostly secondary pattern behind the main pattern, visible only in certain light. The sub-model comes into focus as a desperate woman, constantly crawling and bending over, looking for an escape route from behind the main model, which resembles the bars of a cage. The narrator sees this cage decorated with the heads of many women, all strangled while trying to escape. Wallpaper can also symbolize the structure of a family, a medicine, and a tradition in which the narrator finds himself trapped. Towards the end of the story, the narrator is