After being diagnosed with depression and having to stop her daily routine, the narrator depicts her as the women trapped behind the wallpaper. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's article "The Yellow Wallpaper," A Surrealistic Portrayal of a Woman's Arrested Development, we read that after her depression in 1890, she "transferred her own life experience into a poignant account of the decline of 'a woman in madness' (Hall 4). Gilman wanted to share her vivid experience with other women. In The Yellow Wallpaper it is said 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", that is, as simple as she could be. In the story, Gilman also shows the women behind the diary as people who want to escape. It's clear she was reflected in the wallpaper. When she says in the story “the faint figure behind seemed to disrupt the pattern, as if it wanted to get out” (Gilman). After finding the women stuck behind the wallpaper, she becomes even more obsessed with understanding.