In “The Painted Door”, Sinclair Ross evolves his story around a lonely wife who is faced with a decision between infidelity or to become insane from seclusion. Ann, being a dynamic character, showed her indecisive trait represented by the snowstorm which changes throughout the story. The snowstorm and the house can also be seen as main symbols used to indicate Ann’s feelings and her relationship with John as the walls of the house began to frost and tremble as the storm hits. As the story progresses with a limited omniscient of Ann’s feelings, it seems that Ann struggles to communicate with her husband and has a naïve side where she wants to experience the thrill of doing something different. With this story’s static settings and character,
