Loneliness to Insanity and Madness in A Rose for Emily and The Yellow W

From Loneliness to Insanity in A Rose for Emily and The lily-livered Wall-Paper In The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir states that within a patriarchal society fair sex does not enjoy the dignity of being a person she herself forms a part of the patrimony of a man first of her father, then of her conserve (82-3). Both Emily Grierson in William Faulkners A Rose for Emily and the narrator of Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Yellow Wall-Paper argon forced into solitude simply because they are women. Emilys father rejects all of her likely mates the husband of Gilmans narrator isolates her from stimulation of any kind. Eventually, Emily is a anchorite trapped in a deprecated home, and the narrator in Gilmans story is a delusional woman confined to her bed. A study of the characterization and place of A Rose for Emily and The Yellow Wall-Paper demonstrates how the oppressive nature of patriarchy drives the women in both stories insane. The patrimony of a man destroys Emily as her fat her smothers her with his over-protectiveness. He prevents her from courting anyone as none of the young men were quite just enough for Miss Emily and such (82). When her father dies, Emily refuses to acknowledge his death With postcode left, she . . . had to cling to that which had robbed her (83). When she finally begins a relationship after his death, she unfortunately falls for Homer Baron who liked m... ...Jellife. Tokyo Kenkyusha, 1956. ---. Faulkner in the University. Ed. Frederick L. Gwynn and Joseph L. Blotner. Charlottesville U of Virginia P, 1959. ---. A Rose for Emily. Literature Reading, Reacting, Writing. Ed. Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell. third ed. Orlando Harcourt, 1997. 80-87. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Why I Wrote The Yellow Wall-Paper. The Forerunner. October 1913. Online. An American Literature Survey Site. 14 November 1998. Available HTTP www.cwrl.utexas.edu/daniel/amlit/index.html ---. The Yellow Wall-Paper. Literature Reading, Reacting, Wri ting. Ed. Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell. 3rd ed. Orlando Harcourt, 1997. 160-73.