Psychoanalysis of “_The Yellow Wallpaper_” The reader is first introduced to the narrator’s illness within a few sentences. She (being the narrator), has presumed that she is unable to recover in a timely manner due to the lack of support from her husband, who believes that the only thing amiss with his wife is that she has been overwhelmed with work and outside stimuli. Upon reaching this “diagnosis” of his wife, John prescribes bed-rest and forbids his wife to perform such tasks that resemble work. Although she is very reluctant to do so, she follows the doctor’s orders and resumes resting in the “sulphur tinted” room. Along with bed-rest, the narrator also seeks permission and acceptance from John with regards to most trinket-like occurrences in her secluded life-style. When rest is no longer an option for the narrator, she writes, for she does not agree with her husband and his ignorant requests. She feels that “if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus” the faster the recovery would be. Although she is willing to convey this rebellion to herself in her journal, the resistance that she would be met with from her husband was enough to have the diary relinquished to the bureau before his return to her room. The room, in which she resides, is one of extremes, in both physical and spiritual commodities. “The windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls… The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow,” and should be stripped for being so hideous. The persistent “flamboyant patterns,” invoke a constant feeling of confusion while simultaneously instilling a sense of wonder. The “_delicious_ garden,” something she so admires and desires, is beyond reach through the child-proof window. She is confined to the small and lonesome area in which she must eat and sleep, and occasionally, while continuing to conceal her actions, write. It is the wallpaper that is most atrocious to her. Oh how she...