n as it was moonlight and that poor thing began to crawl and shake the pattern, I got up and ran to help her" (1221). To leap over this obstacle the narrator tries to free her sidekick from the wallpaper. The narrator says "I pulled and she shook. I shook and she pulled, and before morning we had peeled off yards of that wallpaper" (1221). To overcome the obstacle of freeing the women in the wallpaper she destroyed her captive structure. The most important trait a hero must have is the ability to give up their life for what they believe in. At the end of the story, the narrator releases her sidekick. Right then it appears that our mentally ill narrator losses her life. The narrator says "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" (1222). The narrator, whose name is finally hinted as being Jane, does a good deed by releasing her partner. She gives up her life of old womanhood to be replaced with new womenhood like a hero. It is strange to say someone is a hero when there chatting with and ripping down wallpaper, but it symbolizes something far more than that. Here, insanity was the ancient style women, one that wears big dresses, does all the cleaning and takes care of the kids. The narrator was tired of this man-oppressed life and she became a women who wanted to share the chores of life with her husband. The narrator was going to change regardless and she even stepped over her husband to finish her transition. Not only is she a hero in the story she is heroic to all women.COMIC RELIEFLook, who is that, an escaped mental patient, a women's lib activist, no its Super Wallpaper Lady. She rips off wallpaper faster than an interior decorator, stronger than an oppressed women, able to leap villainous husbands in a single bound. MS- Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary at Webster.com, (July 19, 2000)Western Literature in a World Context b...
