The Yellow Wallpaper as a Guide to Madness"Here comes John, and I must put this away: he hates to make me write a word" (p659). As evident from the quote above, Gilman places the narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper" as secluded as possible; she is placed in a large house, surrounded only by her husband and a few helpers (Jennie), when unfortunately it is clear that her relationship with her husband is based on distance and misunderstanding: "It's so difficult to talk to John about my case, because he is so wise and because he loves me so much" (p 663). Gilman further confines his narrator when it becomes clear that the poor soul has absolutely no one to talk to; that is, no one who can understand it. The narrator is cornered by her loved ones, isolated from the world under the orders of her doctor husband, and therefore physically confined to her shaky mental realm. The next aspect of the narrator that magnifies her state for us is her tone: "I've finally discovered something... The drawing in front is moving and no wonder the woman in the back is shaking it!" (p. 666). Gilm...