A Rose for Emily/ the yellow wallpaper
William Faulkner and Charlotte Gilman were both early nineteenth century writers.
Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” and Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” involve two woman enduring emotional situations. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” the narrator is suffering from depression and her own loneliness. “A Rose for Emily” shows a woman with traditional views struggling with loneliness. These two stories contain uncontrollable changes and the struggles the women endure while trying to accept them.
William Faulkner is a critically acclaimed writer. He won the Noble Prize in Literature in
1949, which began his popularity. He also won the Pulitzer prize for Fiction for “A Fable”, and
“The Recivers”. Faulkner was born September …show more content…
Her husband, a doctor, believes the rest cure will heal his wife. The narrator is made to only to take “tonics, and journeys, and air, and exercise..” (Gilman), she is also forbidden to
“work”. She is also not allowed to write, but breaks that rule. In both “A Rose for Emily” and
“The Yellow Wallpaper” both woman are suffering from mental illness, which they were drove to by the men in their lives. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” Gilman deals with the issue of women’s rights being overruled by oppression. The setting in Faulkner’s story is a time when society had a traditional mental attitude, and Miss Emily did not meet those idealistic. The time period in both of these stories, society forced women to maintain a certain role, image, and ideal. In Faulkner’s and Gilman’s stories the women cracked under that pressure which produced a change of behavior in the two women. Emily is from an older southern era, which has long passed her and
her society. It was a time that was pride and women were to be considered a “fair” sex. They did not admit to be being weak or deficient in public. Whereas in “the yellow” the narrator is more of a feminist. She has the chance to be her own person, but instead chooses to be limited by
William Faulkner and Charlotte Gilman were both early nineteenth century writers.
Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” and Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” involve two woman enduring emotional situations. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” the narrator is suffering from depression and her own loneliness. “A Rose for Emily” shows a woman with traditional views struggling with loneliness. These two stories contain uncontrollable changes and the struggles the women endure while trying to accept them.
William Faulkner is a critically acclaimed writer. He won the Noble Prize in Literature in
1949, which began his popularity. He also won the Pulitzer prize for Fiction for “A Fable”, and
“The Recivers”. Faulkner was born September …show more content…
Her husband, a doctor, believes the rest cure will heal his wife. The narrator is made to only to take “tonics, and journeys, and air, and exercise..” (Gilman), she is also forbidden to
“work”. She is also not allowed to write, but breaks that rule. In both “A Rose for Emily” and
“The Yellow Wallpaper” both woman are suffering from mental illness, which they were drove to by the men in their lives. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” Gilman deals with the issue of women’s rights being overruled by oppression. The setting in Faulkner’s story is a time when society had a traditional mental attitude, and Miss Emily did not meet those idealistic. The time period in both of these stories, society forced women to maintain a certain role, image, and ideal. In Faulkner’s and Gilman’s stories the women cracked under that pressure which produced a change of behavior in the two women. Emily is from an older southern era, which has long passed her and
her society. It was a time that was pride and women were to be considered a “fair” sex. They did not admit to be being weak or deficient in public. Whereas in “the yellow” the narrator is more of a feminist. She has the chance to be her own person, but instead chooses to be limited by