Question

Read the passage from "The Yellow Wallpaper.”

John laughs at me. . . .

John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures.

John is a physician, and . . . perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster.

You see, he does not believe I am sick! . . . .

If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—what is one to do?

From what perspective is this story being told?

first-person point of view
third-person objective
third-person omniscient
third-person limited omniscient

Answer 1

first-person point of view

The narrator speaks using "I" and describes her own thoughts and feelings directly (e.g., "John laughs at me," "I do not get well faster"), so the story is told from a first-person perspective.