In the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the narrator and her husband move to a colonial mansion in order to help the narrator get better. She moves upstairs in this terrible room with yellow wallpaper. Throughout the story she studies the wallpaper because she isn't allowed out of the room that much because her husband, John, a physician, says that it is best that she stays inside. As she learns more about the wallpaper she realizes that she sees a woman inside it and she spends a lot of time plotting how to free the woman. She locks her room and tears off most of the wallpaper and frees the woman. At the end John comes into the room, sees what she has done and faints. Everyone deals with their personal problems differently and "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a perfect example because there are many different problems faced throughout the story. The narrator and John both handle them differently and a result of which, is an important change by both of them. First of all, John handles everything to an extent but he doesn't solve the problem at hand. He tends to run away from it. For example, when the narrator asks, "Why the house had stood so long untenanted," he just laughs at her and doesn't even investigate about it, which proves that he just let it go and does nothing about it. And that is what he does throughout the whole story. Also he "scoffs openly at any talk" (194). This means that he doesn't talk about his problems and he would rather keep things bottled up then to express how he is really feeling. He is also always "going into town for more serious cases." This is another way in which John deals with his problems, he runs away from them. He also avoids the actual subject by calling his wife a cute name like, "my blessed little goose" (196) and, "bless her little heart" (200). These quotes just make it so he doesn't have to answer the question and then he has abandoned himself from the situation.
