The narrator has no way to express her emotions, which makes her more unstable and sinks deeper into her problems. From the time she had the baby until her husband discovers that she has gone mad, the narrator focused on the wallpaper in the bedroom. (enotes.com) says the narrator on page 242, section eight: “Sometimes I think there are many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls fast, and her crawl shakes everything. Then in very bright places she stands still, and in very shady places she simply 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 then she would have gotten better, although I don't think many people knew that about illnesses mental then and so they didn't know how to treat them and some people just thought they were