夏洛特·泊金斯·吉尔曼是一位杰出的美国维多利亚时代女权主义作家,她的短篇小说《黄色壁纸》揭露了女性在“男权”社会里从身体到精神受到男性统治。面对男性的统治,女性渴望获得自由。本文分析了小说中的情节、人物以及主题,从而揭示出小说中的女主人公代表了男女不平等社会制度下的所有女性的呼声,她们要求在家庭和社会上享有同男性同等的权利。 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, an outstanding Victorian feminist writer, whose short story “Yellow Wallpaper” reveals that women are masculine from body to spirit in the “patriarchal” society. In the face of male domination, women long for freedom. This article analyzes the plot, characters and themes in the novel to reveal that the heroines in the novel represent the voice of all women under the unequal social system of women and men who demand the same rights as men in the family and in society.