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The yellow wallpaper
Study Notes
Question | Answer |
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The Narrator | A young, upper-middle-class woman, newly married and a mother, who is undergoing care for depression. The narrator—whose name may or may not be Jane |
John | The narrator’s husband and her physician. John restricts her behavior as part of her treatment. |
Jennie | John’s sister. Jennie acts as housekeeper for the couple. Her presence and her contentment with a domestic role intensify the narrator’s feelings of guilt over her own inability to act as a traditional wife and mother. |