Tearing Down the Wallpaper

From The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The narrator's final night of locking the door and stripping the paper to free the woman behind it is the story's climactic ritual of liberation and breakdown.
Final section
As soon as it was moonlight and that poor thing began to crawl and shake the pattern, I got up and ran to help her. I pulled and she shook, I shook and she pulled, and before morning we had peeled off yards of that paper.
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Final section

"I have locked the door and thrown the key down into the front path." The reversal: she now controls access to the room.

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