Final passage
"I've got out at last, said I, in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!" The narrator's triumphant declaration of liberation through madness.
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From The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The narrator, having torn down the wallpaper and identified with the woman trapped behind it, creeps over her fainted husband in the story's climactic and ambiguous final image.
Final lines
"Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!" The famous closing image inverting the power dynamic between husband and wife.
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