"The Yellow Wallpaper"

The importance of writing to the narrator is that it is the only way she can express her freedom. She writes about her life, as depressing as it may be. Writing is the one thing in her life her husband does not have control over. It is something that she enjoys doing, even though her husband thinks it will just overwhelm her. Although, she does state "but it does exhaust me a good deal-having to be so sly about it, or else meet with heavy opposition". Non the less, writing helps her to withstand her days.

At the end of the story, the narrator finds a way to break free from her husbands control. A way to be free and finally be herself again.Gilman tears off the wallpaper to set the woman trapped behind it free. That woman being herself. Her husband faints because he thought she was would remain the same and he would always have that control over her. To care for her everyday need in a round about way. However, when he walked into the room he discovers that she has overcome all that and has finally been set free. So she creeps over him because he had been creeping over her for so long. Watching her every movement.