In "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner and "The Yellow Wallpaper" by

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the two main characters of these stories display behavior that

some readers may consider "crazy". What is their problem you ask? Could it be cultural?

Maybe even personal? Or might it even be a dilemma within them? Well it could be any

one. Because of both stories historical settings, which are taking place in the late

1800's, these women are having hard times facing the changes that are occurring around

them. In William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily", the character, a Miss Emily Grierson,

has trouble dealing with the transition of the Old South to the New South. It drives her to

the point where she totally secludes herself from her community. Charlotte Perkins

Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper", the character Jane is a delusional mental patient with

a doctor for a husband who uses gender as manipulation for her treatment. In my

opinion, I feel it is the people surrounding them that is causing these women to exhibit

When everyone in her past dies, she still holds on to the past instead of moving along

now I am quite sure it is a woman."

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Approximate Word count = 816
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)