The narrator has no way of expressing her emotions, which makes her more unstable and sinks deeper into her problems. Ever since she had her baby and until her husband discovered that she had gone crazy, the narrator focused on the bedroom wallpaper. (enotes.com) the narrator says on page 242, section eight: "Sometimes I think there are many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls fast, and her crawling shakes everything." Then, in very bright places, she stays still, and in very shady places, she just grabs the bars and shakes them hard.” This means she has a mental disorder and is not in the right state of mind, but I think if John had treated her like a wife instead of a patient she would have improved, although I don't think many people knew that. about mental illness at the time and so they didn't know how to treat them and some people just thought they