Why John fainted in The Yellow Wall-paper by Charlotte Perkins Stetson

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Why John fainted in The Yellow Wall-paper by Charlotte Perkins Stetson
When John finally enters the room, he is greeted to a very shocking scene. There is a rope in the room, and the wallpaper had been torn. Given that the narrator had kept to herself her ‘discovery’ about the wallpaper, her actions and utterances were gibberish and spelt disaster to John. I’ve got out, at last, said I, “in spite of you and Jane? I have pulled out the most of the paper so you can’t put me back!” (Pg.656) John did not understand his wife’s infatuation of the wallpaper and that he had been implicated in a ‘scheme’ to put her behind the wallpaper sounded absurd and signified a bigger issue than he thought she had. John did not expect to find his wife with whom he had been living with to have broken down. There are several possible reasons why John fainted that can be deduced from the story.
First, John faints because he seems to have given his best shot and approach to his wife’s illness to ensure that she recovers but in the end his medication and or its administration thereof was unsuccessful. He could have fainted out of desperation that he is now not able to treat his wife. John is a doctor, and he seemed to have wanted the best for his wife to help her recover. John had recommended ‘perfect rest and all air I could get’ (pg. 648) and assigned a person to be watching over her. It seems he was doing his best to ensure that she recovered quickly and fully. He had chosen the best room and used the ‘I am a doctor dear, and I know’ (pg.652) line to convince her that it was the best for her condition. He seemed to have been monitoring her closely and even complimenting her on her ‘improvement’ when she seemed to be doubting his therapy. Thus, at that very moment that he enters the room and sees her creep whilst talking about the fact that he and Jane ‘can’t put her back,’ he was shocked and fainted.
Secondly, John could have interpreted his wife’s condition as irreversible. It came as a shock that she was now delirious whilst he thought she was improving. His wife was tearing the yellow wallpaper to free ...