I do not believe this story is a ghost story. It seems to be a mixture of a few things. The first and most substantial is Postpartum Depression. Most of these symptoms of this issue alone describe her condition. Loss of appetite, insomnia, overwhelming fatigue, depression. Page 652 the narrator states “I dont weigh a bit more” “nor as much, and my appetite may be better in the evening when you are here, but it is worse in the morning when you are away.”  page 650 “I cry at nothing, and i cry most of the time.”  She doesn’t sleep at night she stays up studying the images she feels she sees behind the wallpaper. page 652 “its like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind the pattern.”  She tires easy and doesn’t help with the baby or any chores. She stays in the room all day and doesn’t go outside.

        This mixed with the issues of her husband and the times were she is treated as a child herself and her husband kind of speaks down to her calling her a “little girl” and a “silly goose” He treats her more  as a patient than his wife in lot of cases i feel. These issues mixed with just moving into a new home seem to have been to much.  It seems the narrator’s husband John is gone a great deal of time as well and she spends a lot of time alone

Poe

   1and2  In Edgar Allan Poes "The Fall of The House of Usher" the narrator tells us he's found himself "within view of the melancholy House of Usher." The building really depressed him because he states "with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit."


   3.  In "The Fall of the House of Usher" the narrator says of the feeling he got "There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart-an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime." This basically emphasizes that the feeling of sadness was so seriously deep nothing he could think of could shake it.


   4. In "The Fall of the House of Usher" the narrator describes to us that the depressing feeling he got was deep and lasted for some time.


   5. In Edgar Allen Poes "The Fall of the House of Usher" when riding upon the house on horseback the narrator is taken back by the gloomy scene. It affects him deeply and causes him to pause and take it all in. He notices and focuses on every detail. Engulfing each one because of the effect it had so deeply on him.


   6.  In "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator is approaching the estate. The scene he arrives to gives him great sorrow.