However, John argues that the room is too small because it cannot fit two separate beds. The narrator prefers a lovely room downstairs that has nice decorations and a window overlooking the garden. In particular, the narrator is upset about John’s choice of bedroom for her. She finds herself getting angrier with him now, especially when he tells her to exercise self-control. She attempts to articulate these feelings to John, but he refuses to acknowledge her opinion. Still, she feels there is something strange about the house. The house is solitary, has hedges and walls and gates, smaller houses for gardeners and other workers, and an elegant garden. The narrator discusses the house and its beautiful surroundings. He portions out every hour of the day in careful precision, ensuring that she will get plenty of rest without the chance to exercise her creativity.
John outlines a specific daily regimen for the narrator to follow, especially when he is in town seeing patients. However, John tells her that such stimulation will only aggravate her nervousness.
The narrator also believes that her condition would improve if she were allowed to have more company. She has been writing occasionally in a small journal, but it is exhausting to do so in secret.
The narrator does not agree with this part of her treatment and hates not being allowed to write while she rests she suspects that work would actually speed her recovery. According to Weir Mitchell’s theory, any sort of creative activity will have a detrimental effect on the patient. John gives the narrator tonics and medicines to help with her recovery, but primarily directs her to stop writing. John hopes that the change of scenery and absence from city life will help the narrator recover from a “slight hysterical tendency.” John, a practical man, does not believe that the narrator is actually sick and decides that the best cure for her nervousness is the “rest cure,” a treatment promoted by the famous physician, S. However, she still finds “something queer” about the house. The narrator is immediately awed by the majestic beauty of the house and considers herself lucky to be able to spend the summer living there. The anonymous female narrator and her physician husband, John, have rented out a colonial mansion for the summer.
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