The Cure is Worse than the Disease in Yellow Wallpaper Often what is supposed to help can hinder. Positive intentions do not always produce desirable effects. The "Yellow Wallpaper" is an example of such an event. In this story the narrator is detained in a lonely, squalid room in an attempt to free herself from a nervous disorder. During the time this narrative was written, such practices were considered beneficial. The narrator's husband, a doctor, adheres to this belief and forces his wife into solitude treatment. Rather than curing the narrator of her psychological disorder, the treatment only contributes to its effects, driving her into severe depression. By order of her husband, the narrator has been moved to a house away from society in the countryside, where she is confined. in a room upstairs. This environment does not serve as an inspiration for mental health but as an element of repression. The closed door and barred windows serve to physically restrain her. “The windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls.” (p218). Being exposed to yellow wallpaper in the room is terrible and only fosters negative creativity. "The color is horrible enough, unreliable enough and maddening enough, but the pattern is torturous. (p224). Throughout the story the yellow paper acts as an antagonist causing her to become very annoyed and disturbed. There is nothing to do in the room secluded but stares at the wallpaper. The narrator tells of the random pattern that has no organization or symmetrical plot. Her constant examination and reflection on the wallpaper causes her much distress. "I decide for the thousandth time that I will follow him to no avail to some sort of conclusion." (p221). Treatments require isolation was a repressive factor. The narrator did not believe that isolation would cure her disorder. Social contact and external stimulation were her desire. "A Sometimes I imagine it in my condition if I had less opposition and more companionship and stimulation, but John says the worst thing I can do is think about my condition. (p217). She was cut off from society and forbidden to see her child. It is not natural to be confined to a few social contacts for long periods of time. Society provides its inhabitants with a variety of different images, sounds, feelings and stimuli.