Before that, he states: “I really feel much better! I don't sleep much at night, because it's so interesting to watch the developments” (478). This statement conveys that he has lost his senses from the outside world and lives completely in his imagination. Now she has become so obsessed with the wallpaper that she doesn't want anyone else to touch it. She also doesn't want John to discover her obsession because she's afraid he'll take her away right away; he doesn't want to leave until he figures out the pattern. On the last day of his stay, after tearing off as much wallpaper as possible, he admits: "I don't even like looking out the windows: there are so many of those crawling women, and they crawl so much." fast. I wonder if they all come out of the wallpaper like I did” (482). Here Gilman discovers that “the woman” and the narrator are actually the same woman. The narrator identifies that she is the trapped woman. The "woman" he had imagined trapped behind the wallpaper was the one who had always tried to escape from depression. During the last event of the story, he says, “I still kept crawling, but I looked at him over my shoulder. "I've finally gotten out of this," I said, "in spite of you and Jane. And I've gotten most of the paper out, so you can't put me back!'” (482). She broke free.