Throughout the text, the reader clearly sees that John addressed his wife's near-imprisonment with very tender and caring words and actions . He always refers to his “little geese” (Chartes 228), his darling and his dear, and he reads her bedtime stories. However, the protagonist, as well as the reader, soon begins to understand this act. John can act like he just cares about his wife, and that's why he puts her through this. But why then doesn't he listen when she says she feels worse rather than better? (Charters 232). Because he doesn't do it for her at all. He is much more concerned about his career. He is a doctor after all, and having a mentally and physically unstable wife would be tumultuous for his future in this vocation. So he has to lock him up during this vacation, far from civilization, so that no one knows. It seems that the protagonist realizes her husband's motives early on, but she doesn't want to believe that what she fears is true. She willingly suspends her disbelief in her husband. She says things like, “Dear John! He loves me very tenderly and hates to make me sick” (Charts 231). In these statements, she is not trying to communicate an idea to the reader, but rather desperately trying to convince herself of that idea. In the end, she succeeds, which leads to her final mental breakdown. Her voluntary suspension of disbelief pushes her to