yellow wallpaper

I would like to discuss the yellow wallpaper. Specifically the patriarchal society that is in the story. The narrator starts off the story by explaining how she is sick. Her sickness doesn’t sound like anything to drastic but the doctor and husband’s solution does sound drastic. The doctor tells her that she needs rest and relaxation by herself for months. Today this type of solution sounds crazy, and the narrator knows that this doesn’t sound right at all. But she knows that her word cannot stand up against her husband and a doctor’s word. She gives into this sort treatment very easily without even putting up a fight. Without even putting up a fight I feel like she knows that a woman’s word does not stand a chance against a man’s word at this day and age. The narrator explains “If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression- a slight hysterical tendency- what is one to do?” (page 1) This just shows the authoritative husband at work telling his wife what she will do, not even asking.