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The overall theme of the story is appearance vs. reality, both of the major characters are unable to synthesize outward appearances and face their truths which initiated the story's primary conflict.
- Death is not something to fear but something to embrace as inevitable.
- Trust in yourself is just as important as trust in others.

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The literary devices that are used are setting, theme, repetition, symbolism, metaphors, and personification. Using these literary devices add details to get a better understanding of what she was seeing/experiencing as if you were there as well. At the beginning of the story it takes place in "a fancy house that has locks all around it." but as the story progresses you find out at the end of the story it was an abandoned mental asylum and that tells you that she was mentally ill the whole time.

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The narrator is in a state of anxiety for much of the story, with flashes of sarcasm, anger, and desperation. The story stays close to the narrator's thoughts at the moment and this means the story is mostly in the present tense. She speaks in these tones because she doesn't understand why the men in her life (her husband and brother) don't believe her when she says she isn't getting better and that causes her to do thing on her own.

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People have beliefs that stories are narrated by people who are reliable but the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is unreliable because she cannot determine reality from hallucinations and cannot express herself because she is dominated by her role as a woman. She describes the events from a first-person perspective, describing her own feelings and observations. She is a paradox which means as she loses touch with the outer world, she comes to a greater understanding of the inner reality of her life.

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In "The Yellow Wallpaper" it is a symbol of society and patriarchy. The wallpaper is ugly, faded, and torn in some spots, and a figure of a woman is trapped in the paper. This symbolizes women or the woman in the story, being trapped within the constraints of a patriarchal society. There are a number of symbols in "The Yellow Wallpaper," including the character John, who symbolizes men in that era and the narrator, who symbolizes women who suffer the abuse.

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In the story, the author uses imagery of a creepy old house and the symbolic bars of the wallpaper in order to show the readers that the narrator feels trapped. Over time the wallpaper changes its shape and color as she becomes more ill, and this suggests that she can't escape to get back to reality because she feels trapped. She starts seeing a lady in the wallpaper and the author uses words like “hovering,” “skulking,” and “hiding” to demonstrate what Jane is experiencing but does not realize however that the ladies shadow isn't real and that is proof of her getting more ill and her obsession, destroyed the peace of mind for all of her parties concerns.