In one particular section, his inner self was transformed into the perception that he is improving psychologically: “Life is much more exciting now than it was in the past . You see, I have something more to look forward to, to wait for, to watch. I really eat better and feel calmer than before. John is so happy to see me improving” (Gilman 799). Men are consistently delighted to see that a woman has lost the ability to articulate anything that might seem like a cognitive interjection. However, this quote begins the narrator's journey towards self-realization. Since the narrator has expressed her distaste for the wallpaper, she too is infatuated with it. He talks about paper patterns: curved, flowery, diagonal, oblique waves of optical horror. The narrator also says, “I will follow this useless pattern to some sort of conclusion” (796). This line demonstrates the impending importance of wallpaper in the fact that it will soon be the product of its autonomous liberation. The shapes within the paper become clearer as the days pass, and then she sees a reflection of herself behind the shapes that “seemed to shake the drawing, just as if it wanted to get out (797). The wallpaper represents an animal inside a cage. The animal will shake the cage because its environment is oppressed by that of the bars. The animal inside the