The husband character, John, in "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is presented as a respected doctor and caring husband who strives to improve the mental health of his wife, the narrator, who is diagnosed with a temporary nervous disorder. John tries throughout the story to apply professional treatment methods and medications in his approach to helping his wife regain her strength. However, his patient, his wife, appears to ignore John's professional opinions and act as if she is following his advice only during his waking presence with her. The narrator seems to need John's positive opinion on the state of her mental state in order to avoid criticism even if she disagrees with his treatment methodology. John, without a doubt, cares about his wife and her well-being, but he does not realize how his method of treatment is negatively impacting their relationship and his wife's progress toward strength. Although John has been portrayed as a caring and loving doctor and husband to the narrator throughout the story, he has also been suggested to be intrusive and directive on a provoking level in the narrator's mind. John's approach seems logical because he decided that it would be best for his wife to escape her depression by temporarily moving to a secluded estate where air, water, greenery and quiet should be the factors. of elevation in his wife's journey to strength and improvement. The narrator disagrees with her husband's decisions about how she should stay and do what he decided for her on this retreat, but follows his orders nonetheless. John's treatment for his wife consists of medical prescriptions: "I take phosphates or phosphites – whatever it is – and tonics,...... middle of paper ..... sion and intrusion. John's lack of open-mindedness to his wife's thoughts and opinions and his constant, childish treatment of his wife somehow underlines this point, even though it may not have been his intention. The narrator was convinced that her thoughts and feelings were being ignored, as the narrator stated: “John doesn't know how much pain I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him” (Gilman 115), and she shows her contempt for her husband who pays special attention to what he considers more important cases compared to to his wife's case with a sarcastic notion "I'm glad my case isn't serious!" (Gilman 115). It is very doubtful that John is the villain of the story, his good intentions to do whatever is practical and possible to help his wife regain her strength and well-being are clear throughout the story..