Similarities Between A Rose For Emily And The Yellow Wallpaper

In the short stories Story of an Hour and A Rose for Emily, the two main characters Louise Mallard and Emily Grierson are both similar and dissimilar. These two characters lived in similar ideological societies and they shared a similar pattern of development. But also they differed in their goals and how they thought they could achieve their goals.

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.

Both the stories present major ideas through symbolism. Faulkner uses particular objects to link the tales with his metaphorical meaning. ¡§A Rose for Emily¡¨ does not explicitly involve a rose. Faulkner notes the rose only twice, in the title and the third paragraph from the last, ¡§¡Kthis room decked and furnished as for a bridal: upon the valance curtains of faded rose color, upon the rose-shaded lights¡K¡¨ (¡§A Rose for Emily, 129). But the significant symbolic meaning of the rose strongly affects the readers¡¦ perception of Miss Emily. It stirs the readers to sympathize with Miss Emily. Rose stands for true love, expectation and the most resplendent period of life. Miss Emily adorns her room as a bridal chamber in rose color, representing a woman who yearns for true love and dreams of a fairyland where she and her beloved can stay together forever. For years, Miss Emily¡¦s father drove away all the young men who want to date with her. Her father thwarted her to experiencing love. In her dreary existence, Homer Barron is the only bright spot, one ¡§rose¡¨. Like a wilted rose, she keeps his body, forever. It reminds her of the joy she once had in her otherwise empty

The themes of these stories are also very similar. As you can imagine, both of these stories are very depressing and sorrowful. “A Rose For Emily” and “The Fall of the

The two short stories “ A Rose for Emily” and “The Yellow Wallpaper” are two very similar but at the same time very different. The main characters Emily Grierson, from William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily", and the narrator, from Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper," are both in the same boat that many women were placed in the late 1800’s and the early 1900’s. Both of these two stories were written in a generation that women were looked downed upon and made to feel less important than males. I feel these two stores are similar in terms of where women stood in society at that time and how society affected emotional downfalls in both of these main characters. These women are both the protagonists of each of those two stories who both go from being extremely depressed and lonely to absolutely insane. However, these stories are written in totally different point of views which creates two totally different outlooks. “A rose for Emily “is written in third person while “Yellow Wallpaper” is written in first person. Also, the characters are different in terms of that they have two completely different personalities. The two authors ideas in both of these stories focus on how women are looked down upon in different situations and generations in society at that time of history.

One thing that really stood out to me in both of the settings in the two different stories, was their use of language. In particular how common it was in that time period to use the “n” word. In addition, in both “A Rose for Emily” and “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”, both the grandmother and Emily share a very similar view of the past. Both of these characters have a hard time letting go of the past, and are in a sense scared to move forward along with everyone else. However, the grandmother in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”, was very hypocritical and manipulative, she would never have had the courage to murder someone the way that Emily in “A Rose for Emily” did. Emily resorted to murdering Homer, the man that she had fallen in love with, because

Micro Essay #1 Female oppression is an act of putting a woman down or mentally burden them in different ways. “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The Story of an Hour” are two works of literature that take place in the time frame in which females were oppressed and had little to no freedom, many years ago. Both stories show how men, society, and the media had a huge effect on women’s lives every day. There is an abundant amount of similarities, as well as differences between the two short stories of “The Yellow Wallpaper”, and “The Story of an Hour” expressing how women were treated during this era, and how they dealt with it.

While "The Story of an Hour" and "The Yellow Wallpaper" are similar in the aspects of fixed gender roles, Hemingway contrasts their theme in "Hills Like White Elephants". In "The Story of an Hour" and "The Yellow Wallpaper" they express a male dominated society and passive oriented women.

In the eighteenth century, Gothic story was an extremely popular form of literature, and it has been a major genre since then. "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner are both Gothic horror stories consisting madness and suspense. The Gothic horror story carries particular conventions in its setting, theme, point of view, and characterisation. Both Gilman and Faulkner follow the conventions of the Gothic horror story to create feelings of gloom, mystery, and suspense that are essential for compelling stories.

Both of these short stories start with two young women who have psychological problems due to male dominance although, Jane from "Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, already starts off having depression after she gave birth to her baby, which later turns into something else and more serious when her husband wrongfully diagnoses her with hysteria. Emily from "A Rose For Emily" by William Faulkner, did not have the ability to handle her feelings due to the traumatic past she has had with her father. Both of these women end up secluding their selves, even if it was not intentional especially for Jane. Jane's husband thought if he were to prescribe her with "the rest cure" she would get better to only realize she got worse and started

Comparative Analysis William Faulkner, author of “A Rose For Emily”, and Susan Glaspell, writer of Trifles, both share similarities amongst the main characters. Faulkner writes about Emily Grierson whom is much like Glaspell character Mrs. Wright .They are women whom are considered to be insane murderers of their husbands. Faulkner writes, Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head.

   There are notable similarities between Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. These similarities include the treatment of space, the use of a gothic tone with elements of realism, a sense of male superiority, and the mental instability of women.

Throughout The Yellow Wallpaper, A Rose for Emily, and the Story of an Hour, there was a definitive overarching theme. There were also many shared character traits between the three different short stories. These character traits were influenced by the structure and style of the writers, such as direct and indirect characterization. The structures also influence our perception of how the main characters develop, since we may have thought that the characters deteriorated, when they actually became more empowered and free.

The stories, “A Rose for Emily” and “The Yellow Wallpaper,” both display how external dominance, isolation, and judgment from the outside world may cause one to lose their right mind. In both stories, the main characters begin to sink into further isolation from the outside world, leaving reality in the past.

As we can read and understand the two stories, both have a main similarity in fact of the isolationism because the main character of a “Rose for Emily” that is Miss Emily Grierson, at the beginning her father didn’t let her involve in a relationship with someone, so she felt alone and at the end the same she ends up alone. (expand here)