"It is fortunate Mary is so good with the baby. Such a dear baby! And yet I cannot be with him, it makes me so nervous"(Gilman, 4).

Though you might have missed it, there is a child in the house also, only referred to as the baby. Imagine what it would have been like to grow up with a mother like that! Writing from the baby's perspective will be difficult. You must write it from the child's perspective, in the present tense, like the original, however, you must use a technique called free indirect discourse. That means there must be a narrator that interprets what is going on in the baby's head using vocabulary and verbal constructions that the baby could never possibly use.

If your group decides to write from the baby's perspective, go back to the process page, if you want to continue looking, here are your choices:

Jennie , John, the wallpaper/ the house, Back to the Process