She wants to be able to think and express herself through her writing. In the short story, the narrator’s husband, a physician of the time, diagnoses her with “nervous depression.” He prescribes a “rest cure” where the narrator is restricted from doing anything other than sitting in an old nursery until she is rehabilitated. She believes that if she were able to do things to stimulate herself such as write and experience the world, she would be cured much faster. Ultimately, the narrator gives in to this desire and begins to write in her journal in
She wants to be able to think and express herself through her writing. In the short story, the narrator’s husband, a physician of the time, diagnoses her with “nervous depression.” He prescribes a “rest cure” where the narrator is restricted from doing anything other than sitting in an old nursery until she is rehabilitated. She believes that if she were able to do things to stimulate herself such as write and experience the world, she would be cured much faster. Ultimately, the narrator gives in to this desire and begins to write in her journal in