How do you define the word hysterical from "The Yellow Wallpaper?"

0 When taken from context, what does the word hystrical mean in the "Yellow Wallpaper?" When asked by my teacher, I replied, "it means anxious and unsettleing." But he said it was wrong, he said it meant funny and crazy (I was lefting wondering how it could be funny and crazy at the same time?). So who is right him or me (or is it him or I lol). Thx for the reply. I bolded the word hysterical below to save you from reading all that text.02br
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00 It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. 02br
00 A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity but that would be asking too much of fate! 02br
00 Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it. 02br
00 Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted? 02br
00 John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage. 02br
00 John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures. 02br
00 John is a physician, and -- 01i00 perhaps 02i00 (I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind) 01i00perhaps02i00 that is one reason I do not get well faster. 02br
00 You see he does not believe I am sick! 02br
00 And what can one do? 02br
00 If a physician of high standing, and one's own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight 01b00hysterical02b00 tendency -- what is one to do? 02br
00 My brother is also a physician, and also of high standing, and he says the same thing. 02br
00 So I take phosphates or phospites -- whichever it is, and tonics, and journeys, and air, and exercise, and am absolutely forbidden to "work" until I am well again. 02br
00 Personally, I disagree with their ideas. 02br
00 Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good. 02br
00 But what is one to do? 02br
00 I did write for a while in spite of them; but it 01i00 does02i00 exhaust me a good deal -- having to be so sly about it, or else meet with heavy opposition. 02br
00 I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus -- but John says the very worst thing I can do is to think about my condition, and I confess it always makes me feel bad. 02br
00 So I will let it alone and talk about the house. 02br
00 The most beautiful place! It is quite alone, standing well back from the road, quite three miles from the village. It makes me think of English places that you read about, for there are hedges and walls and gates that lock, and lots of separate little houses for the gardeners and people. 02br
00 There is a 01i00 delicious02i00 garden! I never saw such a garden large and shady, full of box-bordered paths, and lined with long grape-covered arbors with seats under them. 02br
00 There were greenhouses, too, but they are all broken now. 02br
00 There was some legal trouble, I believe, something about the heirs and coheirs; anyhow, the place has been empty for years. 02br
00 That spoils my ghostliness, I am afraid, but I don't care -- there is something strange about the house -- I can feel it. 02br
00 I even said so to John one moonlight evening, but he said what I felt was a 01i00 draught02i00, and shut the window. 02br
00 I get unreasonably angry with John sometimes. I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition. 02br
00 But John says if I feel so, I shall neglect proper self-control; so I take pains to control myself -- before him, at least, and that makes me very tired. 02br
00 I don't like our room a bit. I wanted one downstairs that opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! but John would not hear of it. 02br
00 He said there was only one window and not room for two beds, and no near room for him if he took another. 02br
00 He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction. 02br
00 I have a schedule prescription for each hour in the day; he takes all care from me, and so I feel basely ungrateful not to value it more. 02br
00 He said we came here solely on my account, that I was to have perfect rest and all the air I could get. "Your exercise depends on your strength, my dear," said he, "and your food somewhat on your appetite; but air you can absorb all the time." So we took the nursery at the top of the house. 02br
00 It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls. 02br
00 The paint and paper look as if a boys' school had used it. It is stripped off -- the paper -- in great patches all around the head of my bed, about as far as I can reach, and in a great place on the other side of the room low down. I never saw a worse paper in my life. 02br
00 One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin. 02br
00 It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide -- plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions. 02br
00 The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight. 02br
00 It is a dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulphur tint in others. 02br
00 No wonder the children hated it! I should hate it myself if I had to live in this room long. 02br
00 There comes John, and I must put this away, -- he hates to have me write a word. 0-