The story of an hour and the yellow wallpaper Introduction This is a contrast and compare essay of the two short stories story of an hour and the yellow wallpaper. This paper makes a comparison of the three literary devices that is symbolism, imagery, and the narrator. Symbolism literary devices use symbols and ideas to signify qualities and ideas. It gives a more profound meaning other than the one in literal sense. It shows an object that represents another, giving a deeper and more significant meaning. Imagery is a literary device use descriptive language to provide the reader with the imagination of the literature world and also adds symbolism; it majorly draws from the five senses, including sight, smell, taste, sound, and touch. Lastly, the narrator is the person telling a story, and majorly determines the story's point of view in fiction. Symbolism The narrator of the Yellow wallpaper had the sense that she had to interpret the wallpaper. The wallpaper symbolizes something that affects her directly. The wallpaper, therefore, has symbolism throughout the story. Initially, the wallpaper is not attractive since it is unclean yellow, ripped, and soiled. Worse still, the wallpaper has a formless pattern that attracts the narrator to try and understand how it is organized. After looking at the wallpaper for so long, she sees a sub-pattern with a ghost just behind the main pattern, but this was only visible in light. As she focuses on the strange pattern, the narrator notices a desperate woman whose stopping and crawling trying to escape from the main pattern, and this resembled the cage bars. The narrator sees the cage as a group of women heads, all strangled as they tried to escape. The wallpaper shows a family structure, tradition, and medicine where the narrator is trapped. The wallpaper is humble and domestic and uses this nightmare, wallpaper, as a symbol of domestic life where many women are trapped. Symbolism comes out well in the story of an hour. The heart trouble afflicting Louise is physical and symbolic. It represents Louise's uncertainty about lack of happiness and manages due to lack of freedom. Louise has heart trouble, which is the first thing she learned about her, and this is what announces Brently's death threatening. With her weak heart, she could not take such news well. Louise sees death as freedom, and her heart pumps blood faster. After her death, it could have been seen as if she had heart disease, and this could have been true since the shock of seeing Brently would kill her. Ironically, the doctor concludes that she dies of joy while it could be she dies due to lack of it. Louise may have died due to a broken heart due to the loss of her independence. The open window is symbolic, as well. It symbolizes the freedom that awaits Louise after the death of her husband. Louise sees the blue sky from the window with treetops and fluffy clouds (Chopin 253). From the window, she hears birds and people sing, and she also sme.