Insanity and Madness in A Rose For Emily and Yellow Wallpaper

Insanity in A rosiness For Emily And The Yellow Wallpaper The women in Faulkners and Gilmans stories are victims of male over-protectiveness. The men that rule their lives trap Emily in A Rose For Emily and the narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper. Each character must retreat into their own world as an escape from reality. Emily is destroyed by her fathers over-protectiveness. He prevents her from courting anyone as none of the young men were sooner good enough for Miss Emily and such (82). When her father dies, Emily refuses to acknowledge his cobblers last With nothing left, she . . . had to cling to that which had robbed her (83). When she finally begins a relationship after his death, she unfortunately falls for Homer Baron who liked men and was not a marrying man (84)... ...the trap that society has placed them in. Works Cited Faulkner, William. A Rose For Emily. The Norton groundwork To Literature. Eds. Jerome Beaty and J. Paul Hunter. 7th Ed. New York, Norton, 1998. 1 502 -509. 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.