The knowledge of a Rest cure in Anne Stiles “Go rest, young man” impacts the reader's view on gender by using multiple lenses to see something not intended to contribute to a specific conversation. First off, Stiles talks about how Dr.Silas Mitchell treated men and women with the Rest cure by writing “While Mitchell put worried women to bed, he sent anxious men out West to engage in prolonged periods of cattle roping, hunting, rough riding and male bonding” In human society, women are always perceived as weak, helpless, and soft; this is no exception, Dr.Mitchell sent the women to bed thinking they could not survive. Furthermore, Dr.Silas express more gender bias by writing “Mitchell and his medical peers discouraged female patients from writing,
