John from “The Yellow Wallpaper,” is a paternalistic and rational physician who's methods of treatment lead to his wife’s lunacy. Being an extreme rationalist, John dismisses all of his wife’s traumas and horrors, and places fault on her “false and foolish fancies”(340). His wife even expresses discomfort in the fact that her husband, “John is a physician,” and states it as a reason I do not get well faster”(331). John is also incorrect in his diagnosis of his wife’s condition and because of his rational “he does not believe” his wife can be sick (331). His wife “disagrees with his ideas” and complains about the “pains to control herself before him”(332). She is aware that creativity is needed for her, but John’s restrictive and dominate nature
