Two stories. There is a possibility that two stories can relate to one another even though they are on opposite spectrums of the earth. How is that possible some might ask, they are not by the same author. Just because a story is not by the same author as another one does not mean that similarities and differences cannot be seen. Differences are probably the easiest to spot considering the story may be on a difference concept. Similarities are something that you really have to dig deep and examine closely. The dialect between the characters may be the same, or they may come from the same background. Miss Emily and the narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper share resemblance to one another, but they also display polarity. Miss Emily is introduced
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There are moments though where the reader sees a side of them that makes both of them appear a little off. As both stories progress, Miss Emily and the narrator are shown losing their minds. Emily kills her husband because her mind is not stable, and the narrator peels off the wallpaper on her walls and believes that she escaped from the wallpaper. As both stories go on, a smell becomes a part of both stories. The smell in A Rose for Emily, is thought to have emanated from the home that she lived in. The townsfolk did not know what the smell was, so they sprinkled lime around her home to get rid of the smell. Little did they know it was the rotting body of her missing husband Homer Barron. The smell that was present in The Yellow Wallpaper, was the smell that the narrator gave to the wallpaper. The narrator describe the scent of the wallpaper as a yellow smell. She was able to smell it wherever she went, showing how infatuated she had become with the wallpaper. Being this infatuated with the paper showed how incontrol she let the wallpaper become. Miss Emily was being controlled and that may be a possible reason for why she wanted to live in the past, and the narrator was being controlled by John, since he saw that she was not fit to take care of herself. Both of the women being controlled may play a role in why they both lost their minds, but that is not the key factors of …show more content…
Miss Emily lost her mind because of her overprotective father always being present and looming over her, after his death she really did not know what to do and she had no one because of her father scaring away possible suitors. Not having her father anymore caused Miss Emily to want to live in past, so much that she turned down free postal delivery. She missed that authoritative figure that stood over her all the time. The narrator did not want to live in the past, but break free from John and an unknown person named Jane. From the ending of this story the reader can interpret what they believed happened to the mental health of the narrator. They may believe that she went totally insane from being trapped in the room with the dreaded wallpaper, or they could interpret it as her being possessed by something in the house because it used to be an insane asylum. From the ending of A Rose for Emily, the reader finds out that Miss Emily is a twisted and dark person. She may not have seen it that way, but her killing in fear of being might have also done something to affect her mental
There are moments though where the reader sees a side of them that makes both of them appear a little off. As both stories progress, Miss Emily and the narrator are shown losing their minds. Emily kills her husband because her mind is not stable, and the narrator peels off the wallpaper on her walls and believes that she escaped from the wallpaper. As both stories go on, a smell becomes a part of both stories. The smell in A Rose for Emily, is thought to have emanated from the home that she lived in. The townsfolk did not know what the smell was, so they sprinkled lime around her home to get rid of the smell. Little did they know it was the rotting body of her missing husband Homer Barron. The smell that was present in The Yellow Wallpaper, was the smell that the narrator gave to the wallpaper. The narrator describe the scent of the wallpaper as a yellow smell. She was able to smell it wherever she went, showing how infatuated she had become with the wallpaper. Being this infatuated with the paper showed how incontrol she let the wallpaper become. Miss Emily was being controlled and that may be a possible reason for why she wanted to live in the past, and the narrator was being controlled by John, since he saw that she was not fit to take care of herself. Both of the women being controlled may play a role in why they both lost their minds, but that is not the key factors of …show more content…
Miss Emily lost her mind because of her overprotective father always being present and looming over her, after his death she really did not know what to do and she had no one because of her father scaring away possible suitors. Not having her father anymore caused Miss Emily to want to live in past, so much that she turned down free postal delivery. She missed that authoritative figure that stood over her all the time. The narrator did not want to live in the past, but break free from John and an unknown person named Jane. From the ending of this story the reader can interpret what they believed happened to the mental health of the narrator. They may believe that she went totally insane from being trapped in the room with the dreaded wallpaper, or they could interpret it as her being possessed by something in the house because it used to be an insane asylum. From the ending of A Rose for Emily, the reader finds out that Miss Emily is a twisted and dark person. She may not have seen it that way, but her killing in fear of being might have also done something to affect her mental