My br other is also a physician, and also of high standing,and he says the same thing.
It’s interesting that either her husband or her brother are all physician and had same idea about her. It shows that how stressful the narrator would be if none of them believed she was sick.
Personally I believe that congenial work, with excitement andchange, would do me good
I find it interesting because she understands his symptoms and needs better than her husband ,who is even a doctor.
You see, he does not believe I am sick!
It surprised me that her husband, who is a doctor, doesn’t believe she is sick at all. I would think a doctor should trust his patient’s feelings, especially when the patient is his wife.
I don’t like our room a bit. I wanted one downstairs thatopened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, andsuch pretty, old-fashioned chintz hangings! but John wouldnot hear of it.He said there was only one window and not room for twobeds, and no near room for him if he took an other.He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir withoutspecial direction
This passage is troubling to me. John calls himself loving, but he controls every part of her life.This didn’t make her condition better,but made it worse.
John is a physician, and perhaps— (I would not say it to a livingsoul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to mymind)— perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster
I find this interesting because it shows irony. The narrator’s husband is a doctor, but instead of helping her recover, his actually makes her worse.
I’ve got out at last,” said I, “in spite of you and Jane! AndI’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back!”
This is troubling because the narrator believes she has escaped by tearing down the wallpaper, but in reality she has lost her sanity.
It is getting to be a great effort for me to think straight. Justthis nervous weakness, I suppose.
The sentence is interesting because the narrator admits she cannot think clearly but then dismisses it as “just nervous weakness.”
That spoils my ghostliness, I am afraid; but I don’t care—there is something strange about the house— Ican feel it.
The narrator sensed something that makes her insecure and afraid. And her emotions got triggered unreasonably because of it.
Personally I believe that congenial work, with excitement andchange, would do me good.
His husband and brother are both physicians, but they don’t seem to understand psychiatry. I actually think the main character, as a mental patient, knows better how to heal herself.
Now why should that man have fainted?
Surprising: This sentence surprising me because narrator have no idea what she done is crazy, she even confuse about why her husband fainted, showing she completely lose her mind.
there is something strange about the house— Ican feel it
interesting: This sentence imply that narrator's mental is not well.