The narrator wants a room downstairs that doesn't have ugly yellow wallpaper, but once again John takes none of his advice and takes all the decisions. As soon as the narrator sees the wallpaper, she immediately decides that it is absolutely horrible. During the time the narrator spends in this "healing" room, she begins to enjoy the room and its yellow wallpaper. “I'm becoming very fond of the room despite the wallpaper. Maybe because of the wallpaper” (Stetson 650). This gradual liking of the wallpaper is the first sign that the narrator has stayed in the yellow room too long. She tries to tell John, but he believes she is letting the wallpaper get the better of her and shrugs it off. According to Liselle Sant, John takes control of his wife's daily actions and this prohibits her from doing anything other than staring at the yellow wallpaper all day (Sant). She is told over and over that she needs to stay in the yellow room to help her