Answer:
In "The Yellow Wallpaper," by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the narrator is a middle-class wife, mother of a child, who submits to her physician husband's wishes, who fails to understand her. As regards their relationship, she looks unhappy but ready to conform to the authority of her husband, even though she probably struggles internally against the rules of society that women are supposed to follow, such as getting married and having children. In fact, even though John intends to help her, he ignores her symptoms and believes that she has a "temporary nervous depression," when she is actually dealing with mental problems.
As a treatment, the narrator is locked in a room upstairs and forbidden to work and write, which is one of her favorite activities. The reason is that, in those times, women's health was not taken very seriously, so John probably takes for granted that his wife, like all women, has a typical "hysterical tendency."