The Yellow Wallpaper

Is the narrator emotionally unbalanced? What's wrong with her?

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From the start of the story, the narrator is supposed to be suffering from neurasthenia, a disease that requires Weir Mitchell’s particular technique for nervousness. Yet, it is unclear if the narrator is actually ill, or if the “rest cure” treatment causes her to go insane.

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