Opening paragraphs
"It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer." Establishes the narrator's tentative voice and the haunted-house motif.
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From The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The story opens with the narrator's journal entry describing the colonial mansion she and her husband John have rented, immediately establishing her unreliable, suppressed voice and the gothic atmosphere.
Opening paragraphs
"John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage." The defining first articulation of the narrator's dismissal by her husband.
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