She is unable to openly share her thoughts and feelings with anyone. All choices are made for her; renounced all responsibilities. This imposed solitude leaves absolutely nothing for the narrator to occupy her time. She begins to manifest her imprisonment through hallucinations in the wallpaper in which she has been forced to surround herself. Finally, the narrator thinks she sees a woman trapped in the fearsome wallpaper. Companionship was refused, even though it was something the narrator had requested throughout the story. The woman in the wallpaper became a companion, as the narrator said, “…I wasn’t alone, a little bit. ” referring to the time she spent alone in the room (Gilman 385). The wallpaper is seen as a cage and tearing it down represents the narrator's liberation. John saw what his wife had done to the wallpaper and asked him about it. She replied, “I finally came out, despite you and Jane. And I took out most of the paper, so you can't put me back! (Gilman 387). This statement shows how tortuous John's choices for his wife must have been.