The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's the yellow wallpaper
Why does the heroine say that his profession is perhaps... one reason I do not get well faster
Why does the heroine say that his profession is perhaps... one reason I do not get well faster
The husband belongs to a patriarchal and misogynistic culture of medicine. Emotion in women is seen as "hysteria" or a mental disturbance. The narrator feels her husband, being a doctor, impedes her health rather than improving it.