When the narrator tears apart the wallpaper, she is symbolically being destructive breaking free of societal restraints punishing her husband for keeping her in the house rescuing her child

Breaking free of societal restraints.

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breaking free of societal restraints

Explanation:

The short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" tells a story of a woman who was labeled crazy by society's standards. Her husband keeps her locked in a room with yellow wallpaper so she can recover from her "illness." The wallpaper represents her imprisonment imposed by social restrictions. So when she decides to rip this wallpaper, she is symbolically showing her freedom from the constraints of society.

When the narrator tears apart the wallpaper, she is symbolically being destructive breaking free of societal restraints punishing her husband for keeping her in.

When the narrator tears apart the wallpaper, she is symbolically breaking free of societal restraints. The second option is correct.

"The Yellow Wallpaper" is a short story written by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is considered as an important early work of American feminist literature, due to its depiction of the attitudes towards mental and physical health of women in the 19th century.