What is a summary of breaking out-marge piercy?

She breaking the ruler used by her father to beat her was her first political act.She cannot believe that something that had caused her so much pain could break so easily. Breaking it strengthens her resolve that she 'would not be Sisyphus.' That there were things she would learn to break. The breaking of the ruler is symbolic of breaking everything the society has laid down as rules for women - like her mother ironing things that according to the poet never needed ironing.