The first paragraph of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman reveals that the narrator is the housewife of a physician that fears superstion and doesn't believe in what cannot be seen or touched. They have recently moved into an unkept mansion that was bought cheaply. This wife thinks it may be haunted and something suspiscious has happened in order to have got the house for so cheap and her husband just laughs. We also find that the wife believes she is ill but her husband cannot diagnose her illness and so believes that she is in good health with only a slight nervous depression.
Questions I would want to ask of this story at this point is whether or not the illness has any result on the "hauntings" and what roles the wife and husband represent as they play off each other's energy in their tight lipped 19th century marraige.
