We watched the Varsity game, so we were gone a couple of hours. Compound/Complex?

Independent clause. The first independent clause of your compound-complex sentence should have a strong main idea because it will remain one of the main points of your sentence

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.