J. Hunter- "The Yellow Wallpaper"

In the story "The Yellow Wallpaper," by Charlotte Perkins Gilman the paragraph that caught my attention came from the beginning, "But these nervous troubles aredreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satifies him. Of course it is only nervousness. It does not weigh on me so not to do my duty in any way! I meant to be such a help to John, such a real rest and comfort, and here I am a comparative burden already!Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able,--to dress and entertain, and order things. It is fortunate Mary is so good with the baby! And yet I cannot be with him, it makes me so nervous. I suppose John was never so nervous in his life. He laughs at me so about this wall-paper!" In this paragraph to me she is revealing alot about herself. She tells how she suffers from nervous troubles that make her very depressed, giving me an assumption that something may be wrong with her mentally throughout the rest of the story. To me she seems to be very normal by the way she writes and expresses herself, but finding out the nervousness is as serious as she says. Both her and her brother who are physicians say that nothing is seriously wrong with her and that she only has temporary nervousness which to them is nothing since to John she has nothing to be nervous about. In the paragraph she also reveals how she sees herslf as a burden to John and that bothers her because she wanted to be a help to him but she has become otherwise. This paragraph also brings into play the wallpaper that causes her problems with her seeing things making her experience her nervousness along with other things in the house. This paragraph in ways can relate her to Louise in " The Story of an Hour," the way their friend and loved ones treated them looking out for them so much that they were not allowed to do much of anything.