The narrator studies the background, observing how its colors change from sun to sunset. It's only a matter of time before she starts to see the images behind this pattern. Once she starts seeing a woman in the walls, her mindset towards everything, even her husband and sister-in-law, starts to change. For example, he now thinks that it is them who are behaving differently, “sometimes it seems very strange, and even Jennie has an inexplicable look” (Gilman 84). At the end of the story, he finally has a nervous breakdown. He struggles to get the woman out of the walls, tearing the paper and all. This woman within the walls seems to resemble the narrator, trapped, alone, watching everything that happens. The narrator even notes that she is freed from the walls by saying, "I wonder if they all come out of the wallpaper like I did?" (Gilmann 88). Freedom is a recurring theme throughout this story. She is the narrator who tries to have her own mental and physical freedom, but is held back by John. In the end, the fact that she tears up the wallpaper, tries to capture the woman in it, and feels satisfaction is what truly frees her, in her own way. He no longer hides these thoughts from John. She shows them to him without any problem and in fact is proud to show them to him. “'I finally got out of it... despite you and Jane. And I took out most of the paper, so you can't put me back!'” (Gilman 89). There are