ear, as she does not want to be in the house in the first place, but she does not want to admit it and she keeps claiming that John is doing this to her because he loves her. She does express her exasperation a few times in the story "Personally I disagree with their ideas. Personally, I believe that congenital work, with excitement and change, would do me good. But what is one to do?" (Gilman, 1999). She despite her unhappiness with the situation gives in to the views of the men in her life. In this story it can clearly be seen where she starts realizing these things, and where she starts fearing her husband and which later turn into dislike. She clearly states the fact that John was hard to talk to, and that she is really afraid of john. She is unhappy about her life and her status. There is also a great deal of control, which is exercised by john upon his wife for example the time when she made the request to be allowed to go see her cousin Henry and Julia, she was completely denied despite her wishes. The time when she tried to tell him that living in that house is not helping her, John completely ruled her opinion and when she tried to protest, he looked at her sternly. Snyder points out "John's methodology in no way compares to the paterfamilias' fifteenth century spatial rationale in this respect, for John does not offer his wife even a semblance of household authority, not even so much as the care of her child. This clearly explains that she was afraid of him. John had also made threats to her getting well as the narrator says " John says if I don't pick up faster he shall send me to Weir Mitchell in the fall" ( Gillman 1996). Weir Mitchell happens to be similar in behavior bad treatment as her husband and her brother and she clearly states that she did not want to go there. Thus she is under a lot of pressure to get better, yet John is doing nothing according to her will , and instead he keeps dismissing her concerns and her op...
