In "The Yellow Wallpaper," by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the relationship between an oppressive husband and his submissive wife pushes the protagonist from depression into insanity. "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner is the story about a young woman who is overwhelmingly influenced by her father, and she begins to deteriorate mentally after his death. Both stories have many similarities and differences. The two stories are about how society can influence the decay of one's mental state. Both of these stories use a great deal of symbolism and imagery and have an ironic ending.

The woman in "The Yellow Wallpaper," who is named Jane, speaks of her depression and how it is casually dismissed by her husband and brother who are both physicians. Her depression really begins to accelerate after the birth of her child, so her husband decides to place their baby in the care of another until Jane recovers. Her husband takes her to an old house in the country and puts her in a room with dingy old yellow wallpaper that has begun to fall off the walls. Jane asks her husband to replace or remove the wallpaper, but he refuses. The yellow wallpaper begins to tak

(page # ) Jane begins to see a woman's figure in the wallpaper. The woman "is all the time trying to climb through." (page # ) This could be interpreted as how Jane actually sees herself (as trying to climb through). The nursery at the house contains windows "barred for children," (page # ) which can represent the suppression of Jane's motherly duties. John does not wish for Jane to have any creative stimulus so he forbids her from writing, which she does anyway. Jane's writing actually is probably what keeps her from going insane sooner. The yellow wallpaper hinders Jane's recovery in that it confuses her as she attempts to uncover its meaning. In "A Rose for Emily," the author, William Faulkner uses the house in which the story takes place as a symbol of Emily Grierson's own physical and mental deterioration. The Grierson house is at first described as "white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies." (page # The description implies that the house has not only been constructed that way for functionality but also to impress the townspeople. Emily's father uses this display of extravagance to give an impression of wealth to onlookers. After Mr. Grierson's death, Ms. Emily's mental state begins to decline, as the house's appearance declines as well. Ms. Emily's highly regarded reputation also takes a fall when she begins making appearances through the town with Homer Barron, a Yankee. After Homer

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