Throughout the story, you can see the narrator slowly slipping away from reality, becoming a psychotic, maniacal person in the end due to her illness. It mentioned in the story that the protagonist had a “slight hysterical tendency” (Gilman 464), yet indicates throughout the text that her illness is obviously not “slight” by any means. This woman grows obsessed with the wallpaper in her room due to the fact that her husband shuts out exposure to the outside world, and tells her to do nothing but rest. She ends up confusing the real world with her alternative world that she has fabricated in her mind, consequently seeing a woman trapped in the wallpaper. Academic essayist Susan Gubar claims that “The Yellow Wallpaper” is solely a feminist propaganda,