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Yellow Wallpaper Husband

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Being a good husband is not about just providing for your family. In the Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Narrator is the wife of John, a physician of the Victorian Era. John doesn't think that the narrator is sane. In that era insane people were sent to an asylum and tortured until they died or worse “cured”. This is causing John to lock her up and “treat” her, personally. She is being choked to death by her own husband. He doesn't want her out in public for his reputation, he will not send her to a proper doctor, let her go out, and he won't let her do things that will help her get better(writing, talking, walking,etc). This proves that John is not a good husband. When John found out that the Narrator was “sick” he took her away to a secluded house and kept her away from society. He stuck her in a room at the top of the house with horrendous wallpaper. In the Yellow Wallpaper, the Narrator says “I don't like our room a bit. I wanted one downstairs... but John would not hear of it.”. John has forced her into a place where she does not want to be. This shows that he does not care about what she says. All he cares …show more content…

He has locked the narrator up, he has not given her the proper treatment, and finally he has silenced her mind. All of these reasons is why she goes crazy. These are the reasons that she keeps talking about the wallpaper. These reasons choked her. They squeezed her life right out of her until she did not know that she was mentally ill. All of these reasons are because of John. He is the reason because of John. He knew of the treatments and knew of the consequences of not being able to cure his own wife but he took that risk for his own selfishness. He drove her crazy to save himself. He thought that he was curing her but he wasn’t. Unfortunately, he did not know what he was doing but if he would of just let her be then she would still be sane. These are the reasons that John is a bad

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