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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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