Comparing The Yellow Wallpaper And Tell-Tale Heart

Comparing the two, both stories are gothic, which adds spookiness and/or darkness to both of the stories. The setting in “The Yellow Wallpaper” takes place at the summer house and the narrator’s yellow room, which sets in an “eerie mood.” In “Tell-Tale Heart,” the narrator talks about the old man with the “vulture” eyes, describing his “over acuteness of his senses,” and also killing the old man, which makes the reader feel uneasy. Both narrators are unreliable. The man’s odd behavior in “Tell-Tale Heart” to illogical fear is very extreme. The main example in “Tell-Tale Heart” comes from the lack of emotion the main character feels when he murders the old man, and for no other reason that, “his eyes.” It is also clear that the murder he committed
is not the only thing, he uses his illness as an excuse for his past behavior. He is also the only one to “hear” the beating of the heart, raising more questions about his validity than answers. The woman from “The Yellow Wallpaper” suffers from a mental disease whose major complication is the invention and creation of “images” inside her imagination that are simply not feasibly real. Charlotte Perkins Gilman wanted to show women were treated by society in the nineteenth century. Edgar Allen Poe wrote the short story out of pure entertainment