Is there a dynamic character that changes throughout the story?In what way is this change important?

A dynamic character is a character who grows and changes
over the action of the text. The opposing character is called a static character. This
character does not change or grow over the movement of the
text.

In regards to the protagonist in Gilman's short story
"The Yellow Wallpaper" the protagonist does, in fact, change throughout the
text.

The story opens detailing a move to the country where
the narrator is supposed to be getting better. While it is never stated, the protagonist
has been assumed to be suffering from Post-Partum Depression. Therefore, she is already
suffering from a mental illness.

During her stay at the
country home, the protagonist grows rapidly more and more unstable. In the end, she has
gone completely insane.

Therefore, based upon this fact
alone, the character does change over the course of the story. But, one could argue that
she comes into the story mentally unbalanced and ends the story still mentally
unbalanced. In regards to this interpretation, the protagonist would be considered to be
a static character.

The denotation of either static or
dynamic simply depends upon ones own personal interpretation of the changes which takes
place.

As for the other characters in the story (Jennie and
John) readers do not know enough about them to deem them static or
dynamic.