The narrator identifies the character as a woman and realizes that “at night, under any type of light… they become bars!” I mean the exterior model, and the woman behind it is as simple as possible” (). At this point, she can create a relationship with the "woman" based on the similarities they share, such as how they are both trapped by this wallpaper. They are both forcibly restrained, and the lack of movement and interaction pushes the narrator past her breaking point to where she can connect to a person in the wallpaper surrounding the room . The author uses this growing relationship to uncover his opinion on rest cure, namely that choosing to let the patient lie down and rest for such long periods of time will create a feeling of being trapped, and when trapped, the mind can go to rot simply by cooking in its own thoughts and fantasies. It is a cure for insanity, and such a result would be contrary to the expectations of this treatment. At the last moment of the story, as the treatment comes to an end, we see the narrator reach her breaking point. She tears off the wallpaper and exclaims "I'm finally out" to her terrified husband as she "crawls" into the room (). The trapped