Highlights how women were taken during the 1900s. The story also highlights the extremes of repression and sexism by seeing the woman as crazy due to a rest cure. From the perspective of the Narrator's role as a woman, the lack of intellectual stimulation in her thinking and the unfair environment usually drove her to madness. This highlights the failure of society where sexism and oppression were carried out towards women. One aspect of feminism represented by the Narrator in the story is how he tries to reject John's views. She repeatedly asks him to move her to another room downstairs. This is an aspect of feminism that should be encouraged among women to claim their freedom. The narrator takes part in the non-conquest with John. But as time goes by he is less and less able to feel the usual relief. John refuses her request and tells her that she has to spend it in the nursery which is barred and sounds similar to the prison ones on the walls. She is denied the right to choose what she likes. Later she likes the children's room where at other times she closes herself to prevent her husband from disturbing her in the story. Even the act of the Narrator's wallpaper routine is a sense of imprisonment. She recognizes that the scheme is as ugly as a cage that imprisons women who are desperate to escape. The narrator figuratively tears the bars and wallpaper of the cage to clear his way and escape.