The next day she manages to be alone and goes into something of a frenzy, biting and tearing at the paper in order to free the trapped woman, who she sees struggling from inside the pattern. By the end, the narrator is hopelessly insane, she has convinced herself that there are many creeping women around and that she herself has come out of the wallpaper, that she herself is the trapped woman. She creeps endlessly around the room, smudging the wallpaper as she goes. When John breaks into the locked room and sees the full situation, he faints in the doorway, so that the narrator has “to creep over him every
The next day she manages to be alone and goes into something of a frenzy, biting and tearing at the paper in order to free the trapped woman, who she sees struggling from inside the pattern. By the end, the narrator is hopelessly insane, she has convinced herself that there are many creeping women around and that she herself has come out of the wallpaper, that she herself is the trapped woman. She creeps endlessly around the room, smudging the wallpaper as she goes. When John breaks into the locked room and sees the full situation, he faints in the doorway, so that the narrator has “to creep over him every