This oppression is not just localized to their household lifestyles, but personal weaknesses as well. A person weakness that triggers to the narrator's insanity is her inability to communicate adequately. The narrator's inability to get her point across can be a factor of her misery. In the cases she has the opportunity to communicate with John to visit Cousin Henry and Julia she fails in communicating effectively with John. She is longing to go, "I tried to have a real earnest reasonable talk with him the other day" because she knows that John still believes she is sick (7). In that moment she needed she couldn't reason enough with John. She says, "I did not make out a very good case for myself, for I was crying before I had finished" (7).
