Comparing A Rose For Emily And The Fall Of The House Of Usher

.“ A Rose for Emily “ and “ The Fall of the House of Usher “ Compare and Contrast Essay Have you ever read short stories that are involved with many themes of insanity? Edgar Allan Poe’s story “ The Fall of the House of Usher “ and William Faulkner’s “ A Rose for Emily “ both show depression, isolation, and death in many ways that are similar and different. “ The Fall of the House of Usher “ by Edgar Allan Poe is about the main character named Roderick living in depression and fear alongside his sister Madeline in their cursed house. One day Roderick’s boyhood friend Frederick visits him and sees how Roderick and Madeline live i n fear. Roderick ends up thinking that his sister is dead but actually ends up burying her alive. When he finds out his sister is actually not dead, he is frightened to death and the house starts …show more content…
As the house started collapsing the narrator ran out and left then never looked back. “ A Rose for Emily “ by William Faulkner is about how the main character, Emily Grierson lives in isolation after her father's death. Emily was sick for a long time and did not want to believe that her father was dead. Her whole town felt bad for her, then one day she met someone, Homer Barron. She liked him and wanted to be with him, but when she found out he was not interested in women she was upset. So one day she goes into the drugstore to buy poison. Homer was last seen going into Emily’s house and was never seen again. When Emily passed away, they found a skeleton in her room which made the town wonder. Even though William Faulkner’s “ A Rose for Emily “ and Edgar Allan Poe’s “ The Fall of the House of Usher “ both are based on depression, death, gothic literature and death, the