Over time, the character began to have a paranoid attitude towards the horrible wallpaper, she began to see figures in the background, such as the figure of a woman trapped behind the pattern of the wallpaper, she becomes more worried and feels that she should help free the woman trapped behind it. Initially, the shadows of many things began to appear to her like the woman behind the wallpaper. He claims to see her in the garden "on that long road under the trees, creeping, and when a carriage comes she hides under the blackberry vines." Imagine that the woman behind the wallpaper can escape in the daylight and be trapped at night. The fact that he imagines the woman can run away during the day seems more like a reflection of her desire to go out during the day, to explore her garden even if she has to hide so people don't see her. The hallucination becomes stronger every day and so does her need to explode to talk about her feelings, to go around as she wants and not to be trapped behind her bedroom wall. She hallucinates seeing the woman trapped behind the wallpaper bars and no matter how hard she tries, she simply can't escape, so she is the protagonist because she feels like she is trapped in the house and is struggling to get out. Many of us think that we must say, or feel, or be something other than what we are. We say things we don't mean, thinking that's what others want to hear. We pretend to hear things that seem acceptable to others so that others will approve of us. The protagonist was saying things she knows her husband and stepsister wanted to hear because she didn't want to make people think she was going crazy. It would pretend to... middle of paper... unique and different in our own way. Only we can define ourselves as being who we want to be. You might easily believe that “The Yellow Wallpaper” is about a woman driven to madness by postpartum depression and continued isolation, but it is much more than that. It's about human rights, it's about a woman struggling to find her identity, to be seen as an individual, to be herself and express herself in the way she feels is healthy. Sometimes our relatives and family might think they know exactly what is best for us, but how can they be so sure if they don't see things from the same point of view as us? Harvey Fierstein once said, “Never let yourself be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to become a victim. Don't accept anyone's definition of your life, but define yourself." And the point is, what's best for someone is usually not what's best for you. Only you can be yourself.