THE YELLOW WALLPAPER by Charlotte Perkins Gilman with the Original Illustrations by Joseph Henry Hatfield

The Yellow Wallpaper is written in the first-person, a journal account of the main character who is also the narrator. John, the narrator’s husband, has secured a rental for the summer. He is a physician and described as “practical in the extreme” and as having “no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition and … scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures.”’