The Narrator does not rebel in a
traditional manner. She doesn’t have a clear objective that she wants to
achieve and she likes her husband. The narrator rebels from her husband’s point
of view and close mindedness to do as she pleases and believe what she pleases.
The narrator has anxiety and
depression, something John(her husband) explains as “a slight hysterical
tendency.” The husband John is a physician and is described on page 186 as,
“John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense
horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be
felt and seen and put down in figures.” The wife believes that since John says
that there is nothing wrong with her there is nothing she can do but be quiet
and suffer in silence. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has something
to do with her suffering, so she tears it without her husband knowing. The
narrator’s rebellion is a separation from the views of her husband.
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