Answer:
breaking free of societal restraints
Step-by-step 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.