Who  is who?

Now, I want to pay your attention on the main characters of the story. The protagonist described as the image of 19^th  century. She is an imaginative, creative woman living in the society. Modeled after Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a young wife and mother Jane who has recently began to suffer symptoms of depression and anxiety.  Her husband, John, who is a doctor, misidentifies her condition and prescribes a “rest cure” made popular by the well-respected physician Weir Mitchell. Also, the denied her all kinds of creativity, such as writing and reading. All in all, the narrator became crazy as she started to see a female figure trapped behind the bar-like pattern of the wallpaper and realized that both she and the figure are suffering from imprisonment.  By the end of the story, the narrator has lost all sense of reality. She develops a fascination with the yellow wallpaper in their room. Her mental illness becomes more pronounced, until, finally, she openly displays madness. Gilman suggests that the narrator's liberation from sanity and the bars of the wallpaper also means an "escape" from her own sense of self. 

John is the narrator’s husband, a physician. He differs from his imaginative wife in that he believes only in what he can see and touch. After finding the illness in his wife, he chooses in which room she will live, whom she may see, and how she spends her time. He counters every desire his wife expresses with a measure keeping her from fulfilling her wish. He seems to enjoy this control over her life, but he can also be seen as a more sympathetic character. He clearly loves his wife and relies on her for his own happiness. 

Although the narrator eventually believes that she sees many women in the yellow wallpaper, she centers on one in particular. The woman appears to be trapped within the bar-like pattern of the wallpaper. The woman is most active by moonlight. As a ghostly counterpart of the narrator, the woman in the wallpaper also symbolizes female imprisonment within the domestic sphere. This woman in the wallpaper has only the symbolic option. 

Also, we shouldn’t forget about the other characters: Jane’s brother, who supports in everything her husband; Jennie – the housekeeper;  Mary- Baby’s nanny; Baby, Mother, Nellie-people the author pays little attention as to other.  All the characters are described with the help of indirect characterization.