Read the excerpt from a paper on Everyman. The paper is
At first, Kindred says, "In wealth and woe we will with
you hold," but then he says, "As for me, ye shall go
analyzing a character.
alone. This leads the reader to conclude that Kindred is
identifying an archetype.
shallow, contradictory, and possibly selfish.
defining a chivalric hero.
describing a fantasy.

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.

there is no woman's sides

can bide the beating of so strong a passion

as love doth give my heart; no woman's heart

so big, to hold so much; they lack retention.

hope this !

write it down

then read over it

then trun it in