The characters of the story

      The main character of the story is the narrator herself. Unfortunately we don`t know her name. This woman seems to have serious mental problems, she has a depression but she considers that everything is fine with her. The whole story the main character writes her secret journal, though because of her disease she is forbidden to do this. 

     So she was brought to this summer house as one of the possible ways to cure her but unfortunately it became even worse, she lost the sense of reality.

       The next character is John. He is a husband of the main character, practical physician, who believes that his wife is ill and needs to be cured. He is rarely at home and this was usual thing for men in 19 century to have some sort of social life and women were supposed to stay at home and play a role of a housewife.

       Jennie  is John`s sister. In this house she has a role of the housewife. This character  has no active role in the story.

      Mary is a nanny for he main character`s baby. She has not appeared in the text and was only mentioned by the narrator.