After she is diagnosed with depression and has to stop her daily routine, the narrator represents her as the woman trapped behind the wallpaper. In the article “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman A Surrealistic Portrayal of a Woman's Arrested Development states that after her depression in the 1890s, she “transformed her own life experience into a moving account of a woman's decline into madness” (hall 4). Gilman wanted to share her vivid experience with other women. In The Yellow Wallpaper he says that "the woman behind it is as plain as can be" (Gilman). This particular summary of the story shows that the narrator reflects the woman as "simple", which means how simple she could be. In the story, Gilman also shows the women behind the newspaper as someone who wants to escape. It is clear that it was reflecting in the background. When he says in the story "the faint figure behind seemed to shake the pattern, just as if it wanted to get out" (Gilman). After finding the women trapped behind the wallpaper, she becomes even more obsessed with trying to understand