... The Yellow Wall-Paper uses a tone which suggests that since she is a woman, she has no right to disagree with a man. She says that "personally, I disagree with their (her husband's and brother's) ideas. Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good. But what is one to do?"(10). The author depicts the narrator's oppressed female life as being appalling, and also the basis for her mental sickness. With every thought, the narrator refers to her husband with the highest esteem. Although she praises him by exclaiming that "I know John would think it absurd...because he is so wise...John says I mustn't lose my strength...Dear John! He loves me so dearly, and hates to have me sick... I don't want to irritate him...it is lucky that John kept me here," she still adamantly states, "I wish John would take me away from here!" ...

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