Before this, she expresses: “I feel so much better! I don’t sleep much at night, it’s so interesting to observe what’s happening” (478). This statement shows that she has lost her sense of the outside world and is living completely in her own imagination. She's become so obsessed with the wallpaper now that she doesn't want anyone else to touch it. She also doesn't want John to find out about her obsession because she's afraid he'll take her away immediately; she doesn't want to leave until she understands the pattern. On the last day of her stay, after tearing off as much wallpaper as possible, she admits: "I don't even like looking out the windows – there are so many of these crawling women, and they're so scary." fast. I wonder if they all come out of the wallpaper like me” (482). Here, Gilman discovers that "the woman" and the narrator are in fact the same woman. The narrator identifies that she is the trapped woman. The “woman” she had imagined, stuck behind the wallpaper, was her who had always been trying to escape depression. In the last event of the story, she says: “I still kept crawling, but I looked over my shoulder at him. “I finally got through it,” I said, “despite you and Jane. And I took most of the paper out, so you can't put me back!' » (482). She broke free