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Women in the 19th century were controlled and restricted by their husbands. Women did not have any opportunities to release their repressed emotions. They could not express anything, because they were trapped in their marriage, society, and housekeeping. The Yellow Wall-Paper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, tells of a woman who experiences the oppression of women in society. ... John is a physician, and perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster [? ... that is one reason I di not get well faster? ... This quote illustrates that the husband controls everything about the woman, and he does not let her have any freedom. He does not let her go anywhere, and she has to follow the schedule that her husband made for her. ... But he said I wasn’t able to go, nor able to stand it after I got there; and I did not make out a very good case for myself, for I was crying before I had finished. ... The husband insists on her not doing what she really wants to do. He concludes that she would not be able to stand visiting her cousins. ... It seems like her husband does not understand her, and is only treating her as a mental person. While the woman says she does not want to be in the room by herself, her husband says ? ... Can you not trust me as a physician when I tell you so? ... I must not let her find me writing. ... However, John does not want her to write, because he cannot control her writing, her expression. ... Thus, she does not want to look outside of the window. ... I don’t like to look out of the windows even –there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast? ... “Creeping women?reflects the woman herself, who cannot not express herself and who is controlled by her husband.