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
