Her husband, a physician, wants her to write what goes through her head believing this would help tremendously with the rest cure instead of listening to how she really feels. As said in the story, “ I did write for a while in spite of them; but it does exhaust me a good deal” (Gilman). Meaning the more she wrote about her everyday feelings the more it did not make her feel sane instead she went crazy over the fact she was isolated from her thoughts and words from her own husband. In an overview of The Yellow Wallpaper, it states “ …She does something John doesn’t approve of-she writes in a journal, thereby creating her only true self-expression” (Korb). With that being said, the narrator’s husband assumes his wife will get better with these journals but instead it puts her in worse conditions. The more isolated she feels the worse her depression of being trapped in a confined
Her husband, a physician, wants her to write what goes through her head believing this would help tremendously with the rest cure instead of listening to how she really feels. As said in the story, “ I did write for a while in spite of them; but it does exhaust me a good deal” (Gilman). Meaning the more she wrote about her everyday feelings the more it did not make her feel sane instead she went crazy over the fact she was isolated from her thoughts and words from her own husband. In an overview of The Yellow Wallpaper, it states “ …She does something John doesn’t approve of-she writes in a journal, thereby creating her only true self-expression” (Korb). With that being said, the narrator’s husband assumes his wife will get better with these journals but instead it puts her in worse conditions. The more isolated she feels the worse her depression of being trapped in a confined