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…showed last 75 words of 395 total…with a temporary nervous depression. With the so-called treatment she receives, she suffers from hallucinations. This only reaffirms that the isolation John subjects the narrator to does nothing but magnify her minor illness. In the end, the narrator is driven to insanity and John, her husband, faints after seeing her in such a deranged state. This enforces the fact that his intentions for her were good; however, the total isolation fails to bring beneficial results.