The Yellow Wallpaper
The Yellow WallpaperCharlotte Perkins Gilman
Characters in The Yellow Wallpaper
2 characters, main characters first.Antagonists
John (The Yellow Wallpaper)
The narrator's husband, a physician, who diagnoses her with a temporary nervous depression and enforces the rest cure that confines her to the upstairs room.
Supporting characters
Jennie (The Yellow Wallpaper)
John's sister, who keeps house during the summer and watches over the narrator — an attentive presence the narrator comes to regard warily.