ep as the wallpaper lady did. Her husband arrives and gets into the room after some time and then faints because he realizes his wife has gone stark raving mad!Throughout the whole story, the husband finds ways to discredit the wife and what she says and thinks. This story is great example of the oppression women faced in this time period when the story was written, 1892. The struggle for equality between the sexes started long before this story was written, but it is a good historical piece to show how things were during a specific time period.The wife in the story is told she has a nervousness disorder, but, at the beginning of the story, she has the early symptoms of schizophrenia. Her mental condition deteriorates throughout the story to a deeper and deeper form of schizophrenia. At this time period there was not a whole lot of information about mental disorders and people were put into asylums for “treatment” when they were really put there so the family would not be bothered by having to take care of them. This is most likely why the family took the vacation in the first place, to prevent others from knowing about her illness.The man that John threatened to send her to, Weir Mitchell, was a notorious quack doctor of that time period. There is no wonder the wife did not want to go....
