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The Yellow Wallpaper is an example of such an occurrence. In this short story the narrator is detained in a lonesome, drab room in an attempt to free herself of a nervous disorder. During the era in which this narrative was written such practices were considered beneficial. The narrators husband, a physician adheres to this belief and forces his wife into a treatment of solitude. Rather than heal the narrator of her psychological disorder, the treatment only contributes to its effects, driving her into a severe depression. Under the orders of her husband, the narrator was moved to a house far from society in the country, wherein she is locked into an upstairs room. This environment serves not as an inspiration for mental health but as an element of repression. The locked door and barred windows serves to physically restrain her. The windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls.(p218). Being exposed to the room's yellow wallpaper is dreadful and fosters only negative creativity. The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing.(p22