2. Neurotic Depression
Anxiety covered by neurotic depression is harmful. The symptoms are more damaging for a person such as despair, inferiority, and loneliness. Those
symptoms are preserved into extreme ways to punish the anxiety. The neurotic depression is often precipitated by current circumstance. The
predominance of depressed mood, however, is maintained, and usually the person cannot mobilize himself to alter it. Loneliness and feelings of
worthlessness and inferiority are prominent p.182. In the early analysis, Sophia has anxiety over Gerald. Sophia feels
uncomfortable to live with him. Gerald always does all the things with his own ways. It makes Sophia feels anxious because she has different ways of thinking
from Gerald. Sophia tends to obey Gerald. She is a calm person yet very anxious. Her silent keeps great anxiety. Sophia‟s anxiety is not expressed very well in this
case. For this, Sophia must be able to transform her anxiety in a way. Since Sophia has no friends and family in Paris, she cannot tell her anxious
feeling to her relatives. Neurotic depressive then occurs during her lack of expressing anxiety in a normal ways. She has symptoms like dejection,
discouraged, sadness, difficulty in sleeping, restlessness, and hostility. The anxiety leads Sophia to a neurotic depression. Sophia begins to build a
hostile relationship with Gerald. She respo nded bitterly to every Gerald‟s
behavior. She considered Gerald as a fool and a prodigy of irresponsible. After their marriage, Sophia cannot see Gerald as man of the people anymore. Sophia
starts to see Gerald as a foolish. At the page 342, the story desc ribes, “They hated
each other, but in different ways. She loathed him, and he resented her. ”
Sophia also has restlesness. She forced her weak body to spy on Gerald. She even feels fatigue but she kept on following Gerald to know what he does behind
her. She sprang up, threw the book on the bed, and seized her gloves. She would
follow him, if she could. She would do what she had never done before-she would spy on him. Fighting against her lassitude, she descended the long
winding stairs, and peeped forth from the door way into the street p. 346. It is hard for Sophia to live in Paris that she even feels anxious about her
surroundings. Sophia experienced dejection. She shut herself in the hotel after Gerald left her. She also does not want to eat. Moreover, Sophia hides herself in
the darkness. „Madame is suffering?‟ the landlady began.
Sophia refused offers of food and nursing. „... Then madame has want of nothing?‟
„If you will extinguish the candle,‟ said Sophia p. 352. Another symptom is the lonely feeling. Sophia feels lonely too. She thinks
about herself as a foreign woman and deserves to be sick alone in Paris. She is trapped in her loneliness and preserves it.
She kept saying to herself, „I‟m all alone now, and I‟m going to be ill. Iam ill.‟ She saw herself dying in Paris, and heard the expression of facile
sympathy and idle curiosity drawn forth by the sight of the dead body of this foreign woman in a little Paris hotel p. 353.
3. Anxiety Attack
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