What similarities do you notice between this story and the real world? the story im reading is called before the battle by stephen crane.

as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.

i think it is d tell if im wrong