Confession in The Yellow Wallpaper In The Yellow Wallpaper by Perkins Gilman, the narrator struggles to confess her thoughts and feelings to her husband forcing her to hold back her emotions and devote herself to writing for proper confession. The physically and mentally isolated woman uses writing as a way to cope with the immoral treatment she is experiencing. The belittled wife confesses her concerns to her diary rather than be ridiculed by her spouse. Her distant husband is using the Rest Cure treatment on his wife and remains aloof treating her like a patient rather than his wife. The cure that led the protagonist to confession through writing is called the Rest Cure. The rest cure involves isolation from friends and family, along with bed rest. The narrator is trying to talk to her husband and confess her feelings about her mental illness and the treatment she is forced to undergo and is patronized. At a certain point she starts arguing with her husband about the wallpaper that is bothering her. One reading would expect her husband to openly listen to her concerns, but instead he ignores her feelings and seems to mock her thoughts by belittling her. "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage." (647 Gilman), this excerpt is a perfect example of John putting his thoughts and feelings aside and making her feel like she is a child. The loving wife justifies her remarks even if they are condescending. The inability to talk to her husband and the lack of justification of her feelings leads the narrator to feel as if she is not understood by her husband: “John doesn't know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer and this satisfies him." (649Being able to write down one's thoughts and feelings is a very therapeutic form of confession. Writing in the journal allows the narrator a new form of introspection. The introspection allows her to process the experience of undergoing the rest cure treatment. Although the act of writing in the journal is a positive experience, the main character must hide her writing from her husband for fear that he will catch her writing more to look forward to.' She can confess the difficulties she is going through to her newspaper, but she will not share it with her husband. Her brain is being stimulated and is processing more and more, which in turn mainly leads to better mental health