In the story The Yellow Wallpaper, John talks to his wife as if she were a child. For example, “Then he took me in his arms and called me a blessed goose, and said he would go into the cellar, if I wanted, and whiten it to boot” (Gilman). As you can see, John calls his wife "blessed little goose", denoting that she is actually inferior to him and comparing her to an animal. In the 19th century it was taboo for a woman to do what she wanted and what she thought was best for herself. Gilman has always supported her rights as a woman and fought to have a voice. She wrote this story to tell the world what it means to be someone without a voice and how men and society have prevented women from living life outside of their domestic roles. When the couple first arrives at the colonial mansion, they are taken to the room where they will spend the rest of their time and she disapproves. Her husband laughs at her, shrugs it off and moves on. She doesn't argue with him because she feels she has no say in the matter and it would be a waste of time. The narrator also disagrees with her treatment, but her opinion is ignored by her husband because he is a doctor. In the article “The Writer as Doctor: New Patterns of Medical Discourse in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Later Fiction,” the writer expresses how the male