Feminism is defined as the goal of perfect equality between the sexes socially, economically, etc. Clearly, the marriage in this story is dominated by the husband, who is also the narrator - he is the doctor. The first time the narrator mentions her husband, John, is when he laughed at her for asking questions regarding the house (which, according to the narrator, is normal when married) they were going to move into to cure her of her illness. his mental illness. Like many other married couples of the time, if a woman was convinced she was ill and tried to ask her husband for help, she was often not believed because men, especially highly educated ones, considered themselves wiser and more intelligent. and they considered their wives naive, inferior and almost stupid. Because of John's social position, he reassures friends and family that his wife suffers from nothing more than "temporary nervous depression." Because of her inability to communicate with anyone other than her husband and Jennie, the narrator writes in a diary that she keeps hidden because her husband hates her doing almost anything other than rest, which is supposed to cure her of her depression. The yellow wallpaper and the woman within the drawing increase the narrator's anxiety, rather than recognition