A Rose for Emily and The Yellow Wallpaper
Browbeaten under a social system in which men dominate, the protagonists of "A Rose for Emily" and "The Yellow Wallpaper" lose realistic outlook as their wishes are overpowered and they react in outlandish ways that paves the path to their own mental illness. William Faulkner 's A Rose for Emily and Charlotte Perkins Gilman 's The Yellow Wallpaper have numerous resemblances. Together these stories show the influences of society and the slow deterioration on meticulous woman. These women are obligated to stay in solitude because during the 1900’s women did not play a role in society. Emily’s father cast-off all types of companions for her; John, the Jane’s husband; isolates Jane from any kind stimulation. …show more content…
The husband is a physician, while the wife is suffering from serious mental illness. From a medical standpoint the husband believes the country air and some rest will be beneficial to her. She was held in the attic of the mansion, in an enormous room with yellow wallpaper. However, Jane’s husband had patients to attend to in town. Her state of mind grew worse while studying the wallpaper for eyes and movement. Jane believes she sees women behind the pattern of the wallpaper. On their last day at the house, the she tells her husband she does not want to go back behind the wallpaper. Nonetheless, this story is about Jane’s the progression into her mental illness, but also liberty. John signifies science, power, and authority, which often dismiss the idea of freedom and imagination. In fact, the husband often talks to the wife as if she is a little girl. As the story advances, when the wife claims she sees figures moving around on the wallpaper, which, that could have been her shadow from the daylight. Either way, it paves the way for her to eventually become the woman behind the yellow wallpaper. In terms of the use of yellow in the story, it works because of the range that the color can come to represent. Yellow is a lively color that we often used to symbolize life and energy. Though, it can be used, especially if faded, to represent criticism, …show more content…
Faulkner compared Emily and her house by explaining them very similar. The house is explained “dim, smelled of dust and disuse, close, and a dank smell”. Emily is depicted as a fat woman in black, inclined on an ebony cane with a discolored gold head, obesity, bloated pallid hue, her voice dry and cold.” (Faulkner). Emily becomes very distraught when her father dies and all of a sudden her life is spiraling downhill. This leads her to meet Homer Barron, who could possibly be seen to Emily as a substitute for her deceased father. Homer is later seen going to miss Emily’s house, but never leaving. The room where her dead Homer laid was a “faded rose color” This symbolized the faded memory of her dead
Browbeaten under a social system in which men dominate, the protagonists of "A Rose for Emily" and "The Yellow Wallpaper" lose realistic outlook as their wishes are overpowered and they react in outlandish ways that paves the path to their own mental illness. William Faulkner 's A Rose for Emily and Charlotte Perkins Gilman 's The Yellow Wallpaper have numerous resemblances. Together these stories show the influences of society and the slow deterioration on meticulous woman. These women are obligated to stay in solitude because during the 1900’s women did not play a role in society. Emily’s father cast-off all types of companions for her; John, the Jane’s husband; isolates Jane from any kind stimulation. …show more content…
The husband is a physician, while the wife is suffering from serious mental illness. From a medical standpoint the husband believes the country air and some rest will be beneficial to her. She was held in the attic of the mansion, in an enormous room with yellow wallpaper. However, Jane’s husband had patients to attend to in town. Her state of mind grew worse while studying the wallpaper for eyes and movement. Jane believes she sees women behind the pattern of the wallpaper. On their last day at the house, the she tells her husband she does not want to go back behind the wallpaper. Nonetheless, this story is about Jane’s the progression into her mental illness, but also liberty. John signifies science, power, and authority, which often dismiss the idea of freedom and imagination. In fact, the husband often talks to the wife as if she is a little girl. As the story advances, when the wife claims she sees figures moving around on the wallpaper, which, that could have been her shadow from the daylight. Either way, it paves the way for her to eventually become the woman behind the yellow wallpaper. In terms of the use of yellow in the story, it works because of the range that the color can come to represent. Yellow is a lively color that we often used to symbolize life and energy. Though, it can be used, especially if faded, to represent criticism, …show more content…
Faulkner compared Emily and her house by explaining them very similar. The house is explained “dim, smelled of dust and disuse, close, and a dank smell”. Emily is depicted as a fat woman in black, inclined on an ebony cane with a discolored gold head, obesity, bloated pallid hue, her voice dry and cold.” (Faulkner). Emily becomes very distraught when her father dies and all of a sudden her life is spiraling downhill. This leads her to meet Homer Barron, who could possibly be seen to Emily as a substitute for her deceased father. Homer is later seen going to miss Emily’s house, but never leaving. The room where her dead Homer laid was a “faded rose color” This symbolized the faded memory of her dead