The Yellow Wallpaper - Journey Into Insanity

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to her
condition than than just stress and a slight nervous condition. Even when a
summer in the country and weeks of bed-rest don't help, her husband refuses to
accept that she may have a real problem.

Throughout the story there are examples of the dominant - submissive
relationship. She is virtually imprisoned in her bedroom, supposedly to allow
her to rest and recover her health. She is forbidden to work, "So I . . . am
absolutely forbidden to "work" until I am well again." (Gilman 193). She is not
even supposed to write: "There comes John, and I must put this away -- he hates
to have me write a word." (Gilman 194).

She has no say in the location or decor of the room she is virtually
imprisoned in: "I don't like our room a bit. I wanted . . . But John would not
hear of it." (Gilman 193).

She can't have visitors: "It is so discouraging not to have any advice and
companionship about my work. . . but he says he would as soon put fireworks in
my pillow-case ...

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