Often times when someone is sick, a loved one, such as a husband, thinks that they know what is best for that person, even if it is against the wishes of the one who is ill. However, this is not always the best method of treatment, because many times the one who is treating the sick does not spend all day with them to know what they are feeling, doing or thinking. The Yellow Wallpaper is about a woman who is suffering from some sort of illness, probably depression, and her husband does not believe that she is sick. Her husband is a physician, and thinks that a lot of rest, tonics, and phosphates is the best cure for her, however, he seems to consumed in his work to realize the real problem. He does not realize that the fact that keeping her closed up in a room, not taking her own opinions into consideration, and treating her like a child is making her even more ill.
This young couple just rented out a colonial mansion while their house had
some renovations done to it. The husband, John, also thinks this will be good for his wife. To take her away from everyday life where she can just rest and relax. However, John does not want her walking outside in the garden, or even to have the room with a piazza and roses all over the window. He kept her upstairs in a room with lots of windows, but these windows had bars on them. His wife did not like this room at all, but John insisted that she stayed up here, and only in this room until she was better.
Very often, surrounding have a great deal to do with the progress of some ones health and well being. People can become depressed if there is not enough change, or even become mentally ill if they are forced to be in the same place with no contact or access to the outside world. Even though John thought he was doing what was best for his wife, he did not want to believe that it was her surroundings and activities that kept her sick. He could not bring hims
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