The lights lit up the stands. The lights were on the field.
The lights were bright.
Combine the sentence into one sentence

second person

explanation:

note the heavy uses of "you", "your", as well as "he".

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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.