"The Yellow Wallpaper" Who is to blame?

            The narrator tells her audience how she suffers from a nervous disability/illness. She is to be kept inside all day by her husband John, with no source of socialization besides of her husband’s demeaning comments and her husband’s sister Jennie. The narrator soon becomes distraught and sees images of “creepy” women trying to escape the wall of which the narrator soon becomes obsessed with. Eventually, the narrator’s illness takes over and becomes mental, in her mind she turns into one of the “creepy” women trying to escape.       
     To me this brings up the question, would things be different if John allowed the narrator to adventure out and socialize. Even though he was the doctor, I feel as if the narrator was able to go out and explore, use her cognitive thought process, she wouldn't have turned mental. We try to do things to keep the ones we loved safe. I can understand John hiding the narrator for her own good, but a part of me wants to believe he hid her from the world for his own good. What I mean by this statement, is could John have been embarrassed of his wife? Did he hide her so his reputation wouldn't be ruined, or was he truly doing it for the love of his wife? Back to my original thought, as the audience in today’s society, I believe that if she was given positive human contact, she still would have been ill, but she wouldn't have gone mental ill. The illusions she saw served a person. The narrator wanted to help the “creepy” women escape and be free. In a way I believe the narrator initially thought of herself as the “creepy” women unconsciously who was trapped in the house. The narrator too wanted to be set free. Finally, the narrator turned into the “creepy” woman, not just in her mind, but physically. I believe even though John possibly could have kept her hidden out of the goodness of his heart, he is to blame.
  


 I just want to put in a side note for entertainment. I’m not sure if any of you readers have watched the movie “Mama” released in 2013, but when reading this short story and the narrator turned into a creepy woman, I immediately connected to the image of Mama in the movie. Both to me just wanted to be happy and set free.