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she is still swayed by her husband's direction with the following passage, "I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus--but John says the very worst thing I can do is to think about my condition, and I confess it always makes me feel bad." Her husband seems to be the one who can change her thoughts because of the fact that he is her husband. Never the less, a member of the opposite sex is still suppressing her.
The narrator also speaks many times in a manner, which suggests that because a man speaks she has no means by which to oppose with him because she is a woman, yet another feminist insight.
The final passages of the story, at last, successfully evident a display of power and possible regain of independence through the narrator's finally standing up to her spouse by locking him out of the room in which he has imprisoned her supposedly for her benefit. Upon which, for the first time in the story he must listen to her to ...

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