ocial contact and outside stimulation was her desire. "I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus, but John says the worst thing I can do is think about my condition.(p217). She was cut off from society and forbidden from seeing her baby. It is not natural to be confined to little social contact for large amounts of time. Society provides a sundry of different sights, sounds, feelings and stimuli to its inhabitants. To go without outside contact would be living against natures way for man. To fulfill her social need she invents a person she thinks she sees inside the wallpaper. "I didn't realize for a long time what the thing was that dim sub pattern, but now I am quite sure it is a woman."(p224). The vision of a woman is clearly an indication of the ill effects caused by prolonged isolation. Her hallucination becomes so vivid that she becomes involved with her imagined character. In a frantic action the now malfunctioning narrator began to try to free the women from behind the wallpaper's pattern. She destroys yards of the wallpaper. "I pulled and she shook, I shook and she pulled, and before morning we had peeled off yards of that paper."(p227) The treatment contributes to her impending mental demise She is first diagnosed with a minor nervous disorder. On her last day of treatment she is participating with hallucinations as if they are real. This obviously shows that the appointed cure only serves to fortify the minor illness. The negative qualities of the rehabilitation regimen causes her to go insane. "I am getting angry enough to do something desperate jump out of the window would be an admirable Johnston 3 exercise.'' (228).Towards the end of the story, the narrator is delirious and constantly creeping around the room. Her husband goes into the room and upon seeing his wife in a deranged state creeping through the torn wallpaper falls on the floor and faints. "Now why should that...
