Niggers Are Black

Emily is destroyed by her father's over-protectiveness. He prevents her from courting anyone as "none of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and su...

These women are forced into solitude merely because of the era they are woman

The women in Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" are driven insane because they feel confined by the men in their lives. They retreat into their own respective worlds as an escape from reality, and finallyEmily's father rejects all of her prospective mates; the husband of Gilman's narrator isolates her from stimulation of any kind.

In the yellow wallpaper the narrator is driven to insanity by her husband's neglect. He denies that she is ill, and locks her in a room with no stimulus or pleasure. In personifying the wallpaper in her prison, she finally escapes her husband's grasp on her, but in doing so, also escapes reality.

"A Rose for Emily" is a harrowing tale of an old maid, driven to grasp for that which she is robbed. Her controlling father rips away any chance of her forming