What Is The Cause Of The Story The Queen Of Spades By Pushkin

The Queen of Spades by Pushkin and how Hermann’s condition progresses in the story I think that Hermann becomes mentally ill in the story The Queen of spades. How I mean that he is mentally ill is that he sees things that other people don’t and does irrational things. I’ll discuss what could be some of the causes of this. To summarize the story, Hermann is a German engineering officer who rarely gambles but enjoys watching other people gamble. One day, while a group of army officers play cards, Tomsky recounts the story of his grandmother, the Countess. Sixty years ago in Paris, the Countess lost a great sum of money while playing a card game. An acquaintance of the Countess, Saint-Germain, revealed to her three cards that if played consecutively would win her money back. She played the cards in order and won. She never used the cards again and only disclosed the secret to one other person. Hermann determines to extract the secret from the Countess. He courts the Countess's maid, a young woman named Lizaveta. One night Hermann sneaks into the Countess's bedroom and confronts her, demanding the order of the cards that will win every time. When she refused, he pulled a gun on her, causing her to die of fright.
He thinks he sees her corpse wink at him. Her ghost visits him and reveals the secret of the cards, if he bets on the three, the seven, and the ace consecutively, he’ll win. He does what her ghost told him and won on the three and seven, but when he thought he played the ace he had actually played a queen of spades. He losses everything, and sees the picture of the queen on the card wink at him. Devastated, he ends up in a mental institution, repeating the order of the cards over and over