The narrator, or main character, in this story explores her home and events in her daily journal. ... John also does not allow her to write in her journal, "there comes John I might put this away" Gilman 596). ... She Williamson 3 to does not want her to write in her journal. The narrator believes "she thinks it is the writing which made me sick" (Gilman 598). ...
The young wife enjoyed writing, and had been told several times by her husband that if she continued writing she would never get the rest she needed to recover. Although obedient to her husband the young wife retains a bit of her own personal power by hiding and writing entries into her journal. ...
Gilman tells the story by means of a journal, which she has to keep secretly against the orders of her physician-husband. ... Gilman also wrote an essay entitled "Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper", in which she explains her reason for writing the story. ...
" However, the narrator eventually secretly disobeys John by writing a journal, which awakens her realization that she desires escape from her husband and the room. ... As a physician, John tells his wife to stay in bed, suppress her imagination, and discontinue her writing in order to improve her fragile mental condition. ...
