"He says no one but myself can help me out of it, that I must use my will and self-control and not let any silly fancies run away with me."
After reading this story I found that this sentence answered most of my questions that I had about her being crazy. I realized that even though John didn't believe their was anything medically wrong with her, he knew that she wasn't in her right mind and that she was the only person that could cure herself. Instead of using will and self-control she gave into her hallucinations and delusions. She was able to trick John, Jennie, and herself into thinking she was getting better when in all reality she was worse off than she had been before. So in my opinion she had a problem to begin with and instead of being strong and finding a solution to whatever problem she had, she went off into her own world and drove herself crazy.
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So, like with "Story of an Hour," it's all about self-determinism.
ReplyDeleteWell, but don't John and Jennie bear any responsibility at all? What do you imagine are the "silly fancies" that John is dismissing? They can't be the narrator's hallucinations, because she keeps those to herself. So what might they be? Questions that she has about marriage? Her status in the house? Her connection to her baby?