Comparing Women In The Yellow Wallpaper And A Rose For Emily
The Yellow Wallpaper written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner both talk about women. The Yellow Wallpaper, is about an unnamed female character who suffers from a medical condition and her husband, John, takes her to this house in which she spends all of her time. A Rose for Emily is about a women by the name of Emily who was living in a big house alone ever since her father passed away and her sweetheart abandoned her. The authors Gilman and Faulkner similarly portray the female characters in a variety of ways. They are depicted as being weak, crazy and alone.
Women, during that time period, were seen as weak and inferior to men. They were believed to get sick easily and consistently be in need of assistance by a male figure in their life, which is the case for both of the stories. In A Rose for Emily, she had been forsaken by her sweetheart before her father passed away. She had no one else to turn to. People assumed her to be frail and therefore felt pity towards her. In the Yellow Wallpaper, the woman was suffering with postpartum depression, so her husband, John, and her brother believed it to be best for her to get away from the people. John always appear to be …show more content…
An example from the Yellow Wallpaper reads, “But here I can creep smoothly on the floor, and my shoulder just fits in that long smooch around the wall, so I cannot lose my way.” This unnamed character is in a state of delusion that causes her to believe she has crept out of the yellow wallpaper and began creeping around in the floor. In A Rose for Emily, she left the corpse of the foreman Homer Barron laying in a bed and on the pillow next to him was the indentation of a head. “Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head… we saw a long strand of iron-grey hair.” This leads the reader to presume that Emily was sleeping in the same bed as the corpse of man by the name of Homer
Women, during that time period, were seen as weak and inferior to men. They were believed to get sick easily and consistently be in need of assistance by a male figure in their life, which is the case for both of the stories. In A Rose for Emily, she had been forsaken by her sweetheart before her father passed away. She had no one else to turn to. People assumed her to be frail and therefore felt pity towards her. In the Yellow Wallpaper, the woman was suffering with postpartum depression, so her husband, John, and her brother believed it to be best for her to get away from the people. John always appear to be …show more content…
An example from the Yellow Wallpaper reads, “But here I can creep smoothly on the floor, and my shoulder just fits in that long smooch around the wall, so I cannot lose my way.” This unnamed character is in a state of delusion that causes her to believe she has crept out of the yellow wallpaper and began creeping around in the floor. In A Rose for Emily, she left the corpse of the foreman Homer Barron laying in a bed and on the pillow next to him was the indentation of a head. “Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head… we saw a long strand of iron-grey hair.” This leads the reader to presume that Emily was sleeping in the same bed as the corpse of man by the name of Homer