The Yellow Wallpaper Comparison Essay

Compare and Contrast Paper When the world is at its worst, we as humans tend to lean on literature. It gives us hope and understanding of our lives. It teaches us that we are not alone. Everything we face another is facing it with us. Works of literature hold the truth of our past, present and future. If we look at the content and theme of similar works such as “A Rose for Emily” by William Faukner, and “Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It outlines the ways of our own lives and has us connect to the stories. Despite their obvious differences in content and theme, “A Rose for Emily” and “Yellow Wallpaper” both ultimately show our own lives mirrored to them, and tell the story of the human experience. In “A Rose for Emily” The content is focused on tradition, and rebellion. We see an outside view of …show more content…
So I will let it alone and talk about the house.”(Perkins Gilman) In this quote we can examine another form of content in the story “ The Yellow wallpaper”. Control is a major thing that happens in this story. Her husband controls her every move. This is why she goes crazy in the end. He pushes her over the edge and causes a woman to crumble. When we are pushed down so far, it is hard for us to stand back up and fight. She had no more fight in her and let the ways of husband in. A major theme in “A Rose for Emily” is tradition to change. “After her father's death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all”(Faulkner. 103)When Emily tries to keep everything the same after her fathers death. She had a drastic change to herself and the town around her. Emily in the end is a pure image of someone they never knew. She is not what the town remembers and because of what they did to her, she has