Eventually, the narrator starts to see the wallpaper as a strange pattern that looks like a woman trying to escape the bars of a cage. She calls this pattern, “the creeping woman”. After a while, the narrator become suspicious of her husband and nurse after she sees them looking at the wallpaper. All of a sudden, she starts thinking that she herself is the creeping woman and that she is stuck in the wallpaper. Then, she decides to free herself by ripping the wallpaper. She closes her bedroom door, throws the key out the window, and starts to rip the wallpaper apart. Her husband comes home and manages to get in. He sees her and he faints. The narrator just steps over him. She has gone completely
