During the story, the woman becomes more and more obsessed with the wallpaper, and as time goes by she gets convinced that there actually is a woman in there. The narrator forces herself to rip off the wallpaper, and she says that the woman inside helps her. At the end, she is so occupied with the wallpaper, that she thinks that she herself came out of it. Just like the women she sees outside the windows, she starts creeping around in the room, along the wall. What happens at the end is that John enters the room, and sees his wife creeping on the floor. I guess he gets really frightened by the sight, and therefore he faints.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the writer of The Yellow Wallpaper, also suffered from a mental illness. I don’t think the narrator and Charlotte Perkins Gilman are the same, though. Maybe she based the character on herself in some parts of the story. Two of the similarities are that neither the narrator nor the writer were allowed to write during their illnesses, and their recommended treatments were about the same, but I don’t think that the writer had the same experience as the narrator, I think it’s all made up.
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