narrator - Jane
- physician husband - John
- john lockes Jane up in a room in a summer rental house to treat temporary nervous depression
- she becomes obsessed with the title object - she thinks a woman is creeping around behind it
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman- middle class Dexter Green loves the rich, unattainable Judy Jones
by Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgeraldcollections include Flappers and Philosophers, Tales of the Jazz Age, and All the Sad Young Me
