Opening section
John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures.Read in Books4Free →
John, the Husband-Physician
From The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
John is the narrator's husband and physician, a figure of patriarchal Victorian rationalism who infantilizes his wife while believing he loves her.
Middle section
"What is it, little girl?" he said. "Don't go walking about like that -- you'll get cold." His characteristic patronizing diminutives that erase her adulthood.
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"He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction." The smothering quality of "loving" surveillance.
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