John is a doctor and is “practical to a fault” (Gilman, 269). The husband does not think that his wife and narrator is ill and believes that she has nervous depression. Instead of deciding what is best for her, the men in her life decide what she will do despite believing there is nothing wrong with her. These actions drive her to madness. John starts her off by isolating her from the world and her writing. Writing was the only thing that truly made her strong and connected to herself. He locks her in a room alone all day and waits for her to get better. At that time, society had something called the “rest cure”, this cure was used on the narrator and other women in society which apparently would have long term negative effects on them. Because she is locked away from her son, she is treated as such. They put her in a nursery, which is the scene of the yellow wallpaper. Readers get the feeling that the husband John did not know that this would have these effects on his wife, but they are not aware of it because women are not that important in this society. As the narrator becomes more and more insane, the audience begins to realize that the narrator is flawed. It no longer has the ability to connect with the