In The Virgin Suicides, there is no character development of the narrators, as they only serve to tell the story to the readers, even though they give their own opinions here and there. . So there's no real need for the reader to know who the boys really are, as long as they can tell us the story of the Lisbon girls. This just helps the reader get a view of the story that is relatively unbiased, since it doesn't come from the Lisbon girls themselves. This is unlike The Yellow Wallpaper, where the narrator's ambiguity actually adds an important element to the story: mystery. We never know the narrator's name, nor much of her journey, her story, nor even what she will become once the story is over. The only clues we get come from slight mentions of herself, her husband, her sister-in-law, and a single phrase spoken near the end of the story: "'I'm out at last,' say- I, ‘in spite of you and Jane?’…” (Gilman, 656). This line could possibly mention her name, however, it could also be a misprint of her sister-in-law's name, Jennie, but it could also be our last clue as to who she was before her spiral into madness during her stay in the rest.