Madness and madness in A Rose for Emily and the Yellow Wallpaper women's problems" and incapable of thinking for themselves, valuable only as marital bait. The two women in Faulkner and Gilman's stories are victims of such assumptions. Emily in "A Rose For Emily" and the narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper" go crazy because they feel trapped by the men in their lives, and retreat into their own worlds as an escape from reality, and ultimately rebel in the only ways any of them can find .Emily and “John’s wife,” the woman from “The Yellow Wallpaper” who is never named, both feel stifled and repressed by the men in authority over them, as a “slender figure in white. .. in the middle of the paper... the trap that society has put them in. Works Cited Faulkner, William. "A Rose for Emily." Eds. Jerome Beaty. 7th edition. New York, Norton, 1998. 1: 502-509. "The yellow wallpaper." Norton's introduction to literature. Eds. Jerome Beaty and J. Paul Hunter. 7th edition. New York, Norton, 1998. 2: 630-642.

Topic > Madness and madness in A Rose for Emily and the Yellow Wallpaper women's problems" and incapable of thinking for themselves, valuable only as marital bait. The two women in Faulkner and Gilman's stories are victims of such assumptions. Emily in "A Rose For Emily" and the narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper" go crazy because they feel trapped by the men in their lives, and retreat into their own worlds as an escape from reality, and ultimately rebel in the only ways any of them can find .Emily and “John’s wife,” the woman from “The Yellow Wallpaper” who is never named, both feel stifled and repressed by the men in authority over them, as a “slender figure in white. .. in the middle of the paper... the trap that society has put them in. Works Cited Faulkner, William. "A Rose for Emily." Eds. Jerome Beaty. 7th edition. New York, Norton, 1998. 1: 502-509. "The yellow wallpaper." Norton's introduction to literature. Eds. Jerome Beaty and J. Paul Hunter. 7th edition. New York, Norton, 1998. 2: 630-642.