"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I enjoyed this read, and the narrator's peculiar thinking. For instance, on page one she writes: "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage." I, for one, would be extremely angry if my spouse were to make a mockery of my suspicions. This is recurrent in the short story—John belittling the narrator and her "temporary nervous condition," addressing her as his "blessed little goose, "little girl," and then referring to her in the third-person on page nine: ""Bless her little heart!" said he with a big hug, "she shall be as sick as she pleases!"" He not only belittles her, but acts as if she has some control over her level of sickness. Of course, the narrator allows this comment to be made with very little protest. While John secludes his wife from anything that would hinder her improvement, I feel that this only worsens her condition. But it also forces the narrator to realize that the women in the wallpaper mirror her oppressive circumstances, empowering her in a way. While I have many questions, what I find most curious is the narrator's response to John's fainting. She says: ""I've got out at last...in spite of you and Jane" (15). Who is Jane? Is this the narrator's name? If so, why does she refer to Jane as someone outside of herself? Given that it is the narrator's name, is there any significance in the fact that she chooses to disclose her identity towards the end of the story?