Madness and Insanity in A Rose For Emily And The Yellow Wallpaper

Insanity in A Rose For Emily And The Yellow paper Many of the upper class wo hands in the Victorian era were assume to be weaker than men, prone to frailties and female problems and unable to think for themselves, valuable simply as marriage bait. The two women in Faulkners and Gilmans stories be victims of such assumptions. Emily in A Rose For Emily and the narrator of The Yellow paper are driven insane because they feel trapped by the men in their lives, and they retreat into their own worlds as an escape from reality, and finally guerilla in the only ways they each can find. Emily and Johns wife, the woman in The Yellow Wallpaper who is never named, both feel stifled and suppressed by the men in authority all over them. Emily, as a slender figure in white... ...he trap that nine has placed them in. Works Cited Faulkner, William. A Rose For Emily. The Norton Introduction To Literature. Eds. Jerome Beaty and J. Paul Hunter. seventh Ed. pertly York, Norton, 1998. 1 502-5 09. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wallpaper. The Norton Introduction To Literature. Eds. Jerome Beaty and J. Paul Hunter. 7th Ed. New York, Norton, 1998. 2 630-642.