The narrator certainly does not feel that her husband understands or believes her when she describes her feelings of illness. She says, "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in a marriage." He tends to speak down to her, as though she were a child who requires coddling or correcting. Further, she says, "he does not believe I am sick!" John doesn't seem to give his wife any credit for knowing her own mind or body, what she can...
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