The Rebellion of John

The whole story the narrator's life is being run by her husband John. She is sick and John doesn't think that she needs medical treatment. He thinks that she just needs rest and can't do any activities. “He says that with my imaginative power and habit of story-making, a nervous weakness like mine is sure to lead to all manner of excited fancies, and that I ought to use my will and good sense to check the tendency. So I try. I think sometimes that if I were only well enough to write a little it would relieve the press of ideas and rest me.” (760) This statement reveals the essential difference in opinion between the narrator and her husband. He believes that her imagination makes her even more sick. She, however, knows that in order to get better she needs to do activities and use her imagination. So to rebel against Johns power she does use her imagination. She starts to write her own journal about the walls and whats going on in her life.