The environment, and the people who inhabit it, are constantly having a profound effect on the character of others. The way a child is treated by a parent will have a direct influence on who and what they become as adults. Human interaction can ultimately lead to a person's downfall or a person's success. In "The Yellow Wallpaper", the narrator's relationship with her husband is very strained, and predominantly determined by the narrator's husband. Her husband consistently treats her like a small child, forbids her to express herself, and determinedly keeps her bound to an extremely restricted room. In "The Yellow Wallpaper", the sole reason for the narrator's decadence to insanity is due to the limitations and restrictions inflicted upon her by her husband's actions.

The narrator's descent to madness is caused by a number of contributing factors, all being linked to her...