Compare Contrast the Yellow Wallpaper and Rose for Emily

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Compare and Contrast Essay "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and "Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner exhibit similarities and differences in the elements of main characters, style, and themes. Both stories include characters that that have much in common. The main characters both experience loneliness, love, the pressure of being controlled and at the end loosing their minds completely. However, as much as they are similar there are also few differences in these stories, especially when it comes to writing. In “The Rose for Emily” Faulkner tells the story about a young woman named Emily, that lives with her father. The story is being told in the third person by an unnamed narrator. The tale is told with no chronological order and at the beginning it all starts with Emily’s death and after that it introduces the protagonist from the days when she was young. Emily was the only child of a wealthy man who never had to pay taxes because of his connections in the town. He always overprotected Emily and controlled her movements. No man was ever good enough for his beautiful daughter. Once her father died, Emily became lonely and struggled with his death to such an extent, that she refused to believe that he was gone and did not want to release his body until three days passed and police forced her to do so. Later Emily meets Homer, and they began to spent time together. Townsfolk, from seeing the couple together, begin to think that they will marry and everything seems normal, until Homer disappears. Weeks pass and Emily is not coming outside as much as she used to. Their is a bad stench around the house that the towns men have to deal with during the night. Everyone thought that Emily became depressed. Few years go by and Emily is seen less and less until she does not come out of the house at all. The truth comes out when Emily

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