The narrator in the story must do as her husband, who is also her doctor, demands, although the treatment he prescribes contrasts directly with what she truly needs — mental stimulation and the freedom to escape the monotony of the room to which she is confined.
A narradora da historia debe facer o que o seu esposo e o seu doutor mandan, aínda que o tratamento que prescriben contrasta directamente co que ela de verdade necesita: estimulación mental, e a liberdade de escapar á monotonía da habitación na que se atopa confinada.