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Mental Illness In Jane Eyre's The Yellow Wallpaper

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The narrator of the story is sick, but in the story does not disclose what her sickness is. The sickness that she has may be insanity itself, which is a mental illness. A reason she may be insane is that she has forced herself to be distant with her own creativity, so she slowly started to crave it. But since John, her husband, didn't like her having ideas/creative drive she had to hide it. The place that she hid it was in her own mind. Since she locked it away for so long she gradually became immersed in it, by day-dreaming. Jane’s, the narrator, day-dreams consisted of “seeing” people in walking in the garden or on the sidewalk. She also daydreamed about the wallpaper saying “that it moves” or “it changes patterns” when it wasn't changing
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