It showed how men represented women because traditionally women were fragile, hysterical and vulnerable. However, women tried to free themselves from these bonds; Jane initially listened to her husband's orders just as society wanted: to stay indoors, rest, and ignore the old wallpaper. However, Jane gradually rebels against her husband and secretly begins to write observations about the wallpaper and the imbalance it contained. Ultimately, she confronts Wallpaper by physically tearing it to pieces, which was the key to freedom, and escapes the clutches of her husband (Perkins Stetson). Jane's absurd behavior shows readers that women also play a key role in society since it was women who had to bear and take care of children; men should at least recognize the fact that these raised children will become key figures in the future. The fact that women have not been recognized and taken seriously for their role is absurd and unfair, and is why they have become strange and unstable, which has been demonstrated mentally, emotionally and physically. Oakley writes, “The second myth is that inequalities between men and women are superficial blemishes… simply removed with an aesthetic attention to the superstructure of social relations…” (Oakley 29). It's really surprising why some people think that inequality is an irrelevant concept and that it's just external flaws that women would try to use as sympathy. When in reality he not only hurt women physically, but also mentally and emotionally. For example, when Betty had lost the housewife skills she thought she had just because that was what society labeled and expected of her. Oakley states that the real source of energy that prioritized this myth was when society created perfect, indestructible, structured things