Although, in the text, it can be seen that the narrator really wants to make her husband happy, refrain from doing everything that displeases him and accept the role of the ideal wife, but she is unable to reconcile her husband's needs with her desire to express herself creatively, especially by writing. In the text the narrator is forbidden to write, but he writes secretly anyway. Toward the end of the story, the narrator begins to identify herself as the woman in the yellow wallpaper. He felt that the image was a clear representation of his life. “And it's a woman who bends and crawls behind that pattern” (Gilman 961). The woman in the wallpaper appears to be trapped and trying to escape the pattern that imprisons her. Much like the image of this background, the narrator also tries to escape the pattern of the cult of true femininity. The narrator has realized that both she and the woman in the background suffer from oppression and imprisonment. She frees the woman by taking the picture off the wall, and as she does so, she feels as if she has freed herself. The narrator said “…there are so many of them crawling women, and they crawl so fast” (Gilman 967). This quote proves that