While I maintain that certain circumstances call for disobeying authority, I don’t mean to say that all authority is in the wrong. Most of the time, authority looks out for our best interest and is not seeking to confine us. As mentioned before, in The Yellow Wallpaper, the main character is known to suffer from psychological problems, which doesn’t give her much leeway in thinking that her husband is trying to suppress her. It does come into question whether or not the speaker of this story is a reliable narrator, since her mental state isn’t all there. Her husband may actually be right. She is slowly getting more inside her head and eventually cuts herself off from those around her, maybe even worsening her case. The same goes for Crito.
