Her husband has probably given her the worst possible diagnosis, or so it is in her mind. "My brother is a doctor too, and of high rank too, and he says the same thing," (Gilman, 1.11). In the narrative the main character is prescribed no work and a lot of sleep, but this does not help her at all as her obsession with the mysterious person trapped in the wallpaper increases dramatically. The main character's sanity is also directly related to the author because the writer had the exact same "disease" and struggles with similar dilemmas. The psychology in this story is very similar to the modernism of Glaspell and Anderson