The Cure is Worse Than the Disease in Yellow Wallpaper. Often what is supposed to help can get in the way. Positive intentions do not always lead to desirable effects. “Yellow wallpaper” is an example. In this short story, the narrator is held in a lonely, dull room in an attempt to free herself from a nervous disorder. At the time this account was written, such practices were considered beneficial. The narrator's husband, a doctor, adheres to this belief and forces his wife to undergo treatment for solitude. Rather than curing the narrator of her psychological disorder, the treatment only contributes to its effects, plunging her into severe depression. Under the orders of her husband, the narrator has been transferred to a house away from society in the countryside, where she is locked up. in an upstairs bedroom. This environment does not serve as an inspiration for mental health but as an element of repression. The locked door and barred windows serve to physically restrain her. “The windows are barred for small children, and there are rings and objects in the walls.”(p218). Being exposed to the yellow wallpaper in the room is terrible and only promotes negative creativity. "The color is quite hideous, quite unreliable and quite infuriating, but the pattern is torturous. (p224). Throughout the story, the yellow paper acts as an antagonist, making her very bored and disturbed. It does not there is nothing to do in the isolated room but look at the wallpaper The narrator says that the random pattern has no organization or symmetrical plot Her constant examination and thinking about the wallpaper causes her a lot of work. for the thousandth time that I will follow this useless. Johnston 2 comes to a conclusion of sorts." (p221). Treatments requiring isolation were a suppressive factor. The narrator did not believe that isolation would cure her disorder. Social contact and outside stimulation were her desire." I sometimes imagine that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus, but John says the worst thing I can do is to think of my condition. (p217). She was cut off from society and forbidden from seeing her baby. It is unnatural to limit yourself to few social contacts for long periods of time. Society offers a multitude of different sights, sounds, feelings and stimuli to its inhabitants..