Who Is The Narrator's Mental Breakdown?
The story gives valuable and creditable evidence that the narrator was believed to have a mental illness, which was likely post part depression. In addition the treatment that her husband gave her well the excepted practice. There is overwhelming evidence to validate that the treatment for what she believed to have actually caused her mental breakdown. The narrator draws the audience in to attempt to elicit from them that she was not ill. She explains that she tries to tell her husband what she needs is to get out and do things, “Personally, I do not agree with their ideas. Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good. But what is one to do? I did write for a while in spite of them….I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus”(Steton, 648) and she really is okay “John is a physician, and perhaps (would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind-) perhaps that is one reason why I do not get better faster,”(Stetson, 647). As the story progresses the narrator has the reader feel her
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I noticed it the moment we came into the room, but with so much air and sun it was not bad. Now we have had a week of fog and rain, and whether the windows are open or not, the smell is here. But now I am used to it. The only thing I can think of that it is like is the color of the paper! A yellow smell…There is a very funny mark on this wall, low down, near the mopboard. A streak that runs round the room. It goes behind every piece of furniture, except the bed, a long, straight, even smooch, as if it had been rubbed over and over.” (Stetson,
I noticed it the moment we came into the room, but with so much air and sun it was not bad. Now we have had a week of fog and rain, and whether the windows are open or not, the smell is here. But now I am used to it. The only thing I can think of that it is like is the color of the paper! A yellow smell…There is a very funny mark on this wall, low down, near the mopboard. A streak that runs round the room. It goes behind every piece of furniture, except the bed, a long, straight, even smooch, as if it had been rubbed over and over.” (Stetson,