Madness and Madness in a Rose for Emily and the Yellow Wallpaper Many upper-class women of the Victorian era were considered weaker than men, prone to fragility and "feminine problems and unable to think through them themselves, which only has value as marriage bait Both women in Faulkner and Gilman's stories fall victim to such assumptions in "A Rose For Emily" and the narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper" becomes. crazy because they feel trapped by the men in their lives, and they retreat into their own world to escape reality, and ultimately rebel in the only ways they can each find Emily and "the woman." of John,” the woman in “Yellow Wallpaper” who is never named, both feel stifled and repressed by the men who have authority over them Emily, as “a slender figure in white...in the middle. paper... the trap in which society has placed them. Works Cited Faulkner, William. “A rose for Emily.” The Norton Introduction to Literature. Ed. Jerome Beaty and J. Paul Hunter. 7th ed. New York, Norton, 1998. 1: 502-509. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “The yellow wallpaper.” The Norton Introduction to Literature. Ed. Jerome Beaty and J. Paul Hunter. 7th ed. New York, Norton, 1998. 2: 630-642.

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