Crazy Jane?: Protagonist

The protagonist in the story of The Yellow Wallpaper was the woman behind the wallpaper. It's the woman behind the wallpaper because when Gilman wrote "'I've got out at last,' said I, 'in spite of you (referring to John) and JANE. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!'". Then I reread and reread until I understood what was going on. When I realized I also noticed that the story had said "There is a very funny mark on this wall, low down, near the mopboard."  And Gilman also mentions that this women shakes the bars. This leads me to believe that the women behind the wallpaper was watching Jane from behind the headboard. When I had discussed this with my class one of my classmates said "Well, what if she is in a sanitarium." and I used that as a connection of a woman watching her friend go insane while slowly becoming crazy herself. She and Jane had ripped the paper off together and locked the door. The woman behind the wallpaper was actually people behind a thin sheet of paper with glass behind it watching Jane. That can also explain as to why Jane saw more then one person at a time "inside" the paper, because multiple people were standing there watching and recording her. But there was one main woman who was always there and that's who "wrote" the story she could have been the only one avalible to a pen or pencil. Realistically Jane would've never gotten the chance to have those oprotunities. They would have thought she would've hurt herself, plus John didn't even want her to write in the first place so how would Jane have gotten anything to write with? The woman behind the wallpaper was the protagonist not Jane.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1952/1952-h/1952-h.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yellow_Wallpaper





Protagonist: the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.