Feminist action finds a parallel in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” through many gender-based ideological theories designed to bring the reader back to the question of the wallpaper that symbolizes the narrator's oppressive situation. The narrator's use of double-voiced speech with ironic minimizations and negotiations helps her assert herself against John who represents the "language of the powerless." The background, chaotic and conflictual, can perhaps represent what the narrator's circumstances have evolved into. The narrator is confused by a contradictory style in the background and the narrator's situational position: he is “flamboyant” and “pronounced,” but also “lame,” “unsure,” and “boring” (Gilman 487). The background contains vivid images and symbols that reveal the feminist perspective. Political consciousness in “The Yellow Wallpaper” describes the obsessive problems of