What inference about the role of women can be made from the underlined detail?

The answer is C) Women began to feel more daring and resolute about striking out on their own.

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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.

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