They were always under the control of their fathers and then their husbands. They would not have had public access to their emotions, as highlighted in The Yellow Wallpaper. “Jane” was unable to accept the depression for what it was, she was even denied access to her son, making her feel even more burdensome. "And yet I can't be with him, he makes me so nervous." (The Norton Anthology of American Literature, volume 2, 1865 to the present, page 488). She is sent to some sort of summer home, forced to improve herself by her "nervousness". Idle in a room with wallpaper she can't bear to see, she eventually succumbs to madness; resulting in her “freedom” as a woman trapped in both the wallpaper and her life. In this state of madness she screams at her husband: "I'm out of it at last," I said, "in spite of you and Jane! And I've got most of the paper out, so you can't put me back! (The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Volume 2, 1865 to the Present, page 497) Both the reader and John, her husband, are shocked, as it was an unexpected turn of events However Jane was free, mad, but free The reader is left with only this one could never know what happened to Jane after her husband returned