The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman

<Tab/> The narrator and her physician husband, John have rented an old colonial mansion for three months vacation hoping that the rest will cure her temporary nervous condition. Her brother, also a physician agrees with John. Although, she would like to care for her own child, John feels that the best medicine for her is total rest. He has arranged for a nanny to take care of the baby and his …

…most of the wallpaper, so that she could not be put back on the wall. John fainted and she continued to creep over him. Perhaps his fainting was a way to show that he was not as strong a man as he portrayed. It seems that she has regained her freedom and creeps over her husband in victory, but it is unfortunate that she had to lose her sanity in order to regain her freedom.