Short Story Comparison

A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner is a short story with third party narration, centered on the main character, Emily Grierson. She is suppressed by her father, life expectations and community interest in her life. The reader gets a sense that Emily cracks under all the pressure and they soon realize after her death, when she is in her seventies, that she did in fact have a mental disorder.

Not only does the yellow wallpaper represent how the narrator feels physically trapped by the room but also how she feels oppressed by society. Through out her

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," a nervous wife, an overprotective husband, and a large, dank room covered in musty wallpaper all play important parts in driving the wife insane. The husband's smothering attention, combined with the isolated environment, incites the nervous nature of the wife, causing her to plunge into insanity to the point she sees herself in the wallpaper. The author's masterful use of not only the setting (of both time and place), but also of first person point of view, allows the reader to participate in the woman's growing insanity.

The wallpaper is beginning to take on the role of controlling her life. As the days proceed on and she continues to sit in this isolated room, she begins to notice objects incorporated throughout the patterns. Every day the shapes become significantly clearer to her until one moment it appears to be a figure trapped within the walls (734). This aversion to the color completely shifts at this point toward hallucination. The wallpaper now has complete control of the narrator’s mind and sanity.

“The Yellow Wallpaper”, written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, shows the slow progression of madness from the point of view of the person who is going mad. Our narrator, unnamed, but possibly named Jane, says she is sick, as does her doctor and husband, John. This short story can be interpreted in many different ways, but mainly focuses on the oppression of women in the late 1800’s. This woman who is seemly mad journeys through “hell” as she slides deeper into the confines of madness.

The story “A Rose for Emily” was written by William Faulkner. The other story I am using to compare and contrast with is “Killings” written by Andre Dubus. These stories are similar in plot and theme. Both of these stories deal with murder, love and revenge. Though, love and murder are presented in different ways in the two stories. The main character in both these stories are of the opposite sex and they are both the protagonist. “A Rose for Emily” is about a women named Emily Grierson and her mysterious life as a southern belle. While “Killings” is based on a man named Matt Fowler who commits a bad crime.

Instructed to abandon her intellectual life and avoid stimulating company, she sinks into a still-deeper depression invisible to her husband, which is also her doctor, who believes he knows what is best for her. Alone in the yellow-wallpapered nursery of a rented house, she descends into madness. Everyday she keeps looking at the torn yellow wallpaper. While there, she is forbidden to write in her journal, as it indulges her imagination, which is not in accordance with her husband's wishes. Despite this, the narrator makes entries in the journal whenever she has the opportunity. Through these entries we learn of her obsession with the wallpaper in her bedroom. She is enthralled with it and studies the paper for hours. She thinks she sees a woman trapped behind the pattern in the paper. The story reaches its climax when her husband must force his way into the bedroom, only to find that his wife has pulled the paper off the wall and is crawling around the perimeter of the room.

The narrator shares her constant hallucinations of a woman that dwells inside of the wallpaper.

In “The Yellow wallpaper”, the wallpaper is a metaphor that expresses women’s protest against the repression of the society and their personal identity at the rise of feminism. During the Victorian era, women were kept down and kept in line by their married men and other men close to them. "The Yellow Wallpaper", written By Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a tale of a woman, her mental difficulties and her husband’s so called therapeutic treatment ‘rest cure’ of her misery during the late 1800s. The tale starts out in the summer with a young woman and her husband travelling for the healing powers of being out from writing, which only appears to aggravate her condition. His delusion gets Jane (protagonist), trapped in a room, shut up in a bed making her go psychotic. As the tale opens, she begins to imagine a woman inside ‘the yellow wallpaper’.

“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story written by Charlotte Perkin’s Gilman. This story portrays the feminist point of view on how women are mistreated. The main character is the wife in the story, and she is supposedly mentally ill. Therefore, her husband makes her move to a new house. The new house has a room with barred windows and yellow wallpaper, which becomes the room the wife stays in. The yellow wallpaper in the room has a certain shape trapped behind the wall, the shape of a woman. The wife spends the majority of the story trying to get the woman out from behind the wallpaper where she is trapped. The woman that she thinks is trapped behind the wallpaper is symbolizing how

correlation to William Faulkner 's short story "A Rose For Emily." Although both stories appear

In the novel, The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator and her husband move into a marvelous house. The narrator suffers from depression and is ordered by her husband to get plenty of rest and is not allowed to work and write. Despite her husband’s orders, the narrator begins to write in her secret journal. In her journal, the narrator describes the house. At first, her descriptions of the house where positive with minor disturbances like the bars on the window and the “rings and things” in the walls, but is then specifically disturbed by the yellow wallpaper in the room. Because she was not allowed to write, the narrator becomes good at hiding her journal. Weeks pass and the narrator becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper. She fantasizes and begins to see images in the wallpaper. For example, “two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down”, and is later convinced that there is a woman trapped behind the wallpaper. In her writings, the narrator mentions that she would see the woman trying to break free by shaking the bars at night and roaming around the wallpaper in the day. On her last day in the house, the narrator decides to lock herself in the room and peel of the wallpaper from the walls in order to set the woman free. When her husband breaks into the locked room, he is horrified by what he has seen. The narrator creeps around the room, “I’ve got out at last in spite of you and Jane”, the narrator said. Her husband faints, yet she continues to creep around the room non-stop

I diagnose the narrator with neurasthenia. It is a disease that causes a nervous exhaustion and extreme excitability. The narrator is prescribed S a “rest cure” in an effort to calm her nervous depression. The nervousness is mostly diagnosed in women. In the 18th century, this type of illness was labeled as one of the “nervous diseases.” They thought women had weak bodies and sensitive minds, they were thought to be extremely ill and that could affect their emotional state. These nervous diseases were caused with many symptoms, such as pale urine, a visible swelling of the stomach, headaches and melancholy. In other words, any sort of depression would be a sign of a nervous disease. Men could also suffer from the nervous diseases, but women remained the victims because men were looked as better back then. Some emotional and physical symptoms are fits, choking, laughing, fainting, and the quick transition from one symptom to the next. The disease was mostly understood as a form of emotional sensitivity. Neurasthenia was first

The yellow wallpaper is a story about John and his wife who he keeps locked up due to her "nervous condition" of anxiety. John diagnoses her as sick and has his own remedy to cure her. His remedy s to keep her inside and deterring her from almost all activities. She is not allowed to write, make decisions on her own, or interact with the outside world. John claims that her condition is improving but she knows that it is not. She eats almost nothing all day and when it is suppertime she eats a normal meal. John sees this and proclaims her appetite is improving. Later in the story, the woman creates something of an imaginary friend trapped behind the horrible looking yellow wallpaper in

The yellow wallpaper is a thrilling story written by Perkins Gilman, Charlotte. The setting depicts the Victorian era when women had no place in the society because the society was dominated by men. Therefore, the women characters like Jennie were trying to rise and discover their place in the society but different obstacles prevented them from realizing their dreams. In this regard, the paper will discuss how Jennie, the narrator needed to have the opportunity to work, to grow and to make connections outside of the home.