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Scales 1! Katrina Scales David Miles ENC-1102 16 July 2015 A Yellow Rose It is likely that after reading short stories The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, any sensible reader will feel disturbed in at least the slightest. Both texts contain neurotic women of unsound mind who have deathly obsessions. At first glance, these stories do not seem to have much in common; they have been written through opposite perspectives, one neglects to be chronological, and the setting takes place nearly forty years apart. After a second read, however, it was easy to notice a distant connection between the mentally ill characters. When imagining A Rose for Emily in Emily’s perspective instead of that of†¦show more content†¦This glimpse of sanity grants possibility for Emily’s character to look like a character we can sympathize for like the unnamed woman in The Yellow Wallpaper. The story of The Yellow Wallpaper is told through a secret journal kept by the wife of a physician who has given her a ‘rest cure’: to resist all intellectual activity. This unnamed protagonist feels helpless so her husband, John, takes her to a country house so that she can recuperate from her â€Å"nervous condition† where she is told to rest in an old nursery room with horrid yellow wallpaper (Gilman 78). It is soon clear that John, as well as his sister Jennie are neglecting to accurately assess the deterioration of the wife’s mental health. With a strict disallow of any creative stimulation, the woman is driven to creating a world within the walls of the room with yellow wallpaper. She imagines women like her being trapped behind the peeling mustard paint (88). By the third week, the wife has descended into complete madness at the shock of John who faints. 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