“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman are two short stories that incorporate many similarities, both stories deal with emotional experiences and psychology of two women living in a solitary environment. The women presented in both stories experience moments of madness, loneliness, a feeling of being controlled by others and a loss of psychological self-control. In both stories, each of the women experiences similar situations, in a completely different environment, and while one is practically forced to abstain from external stimuli, the other voluntarily avoids them. In A Rose for Emily, William Faulkner tells the story as if a narrator who happens to be a citizen of the town with a lot of knowledge of the situation. The city is described as a once wealthy area, inhabited by people who maintained disciplined principles and maintained good values ​​in the community, but like any other city, it aged over time and lost its values. The main character of the story is Mrs. Emily Grierson. Emily isolated herself from others in the city, and only after her death did everyone know the reality that existed in her life. Emily was once the beautiful daughter of a respectable family. However, Emily's father is extremely overprotective and incapable of considering any man good enough to marry his daughter. Due to her father's overwhelming insecurity, Emily was never able to socialize with others in the city and prevented her from finding true love, getting married, or having a chance at living a normal, productive life. After her father's death, Emily, now an elderly woman living with nothing but her home and family name, struggles to accept reality... middle of paper... the woman she perceived to be trapped and in difficulty from within the scheme. When John manages to enter the room and sees the horror of the situation, he faints in the doorway. The similarities of both stories can be read as you go through each sentence, except for the detail that each of the authors describes in each of them. of their stories. Both women appear to be around the same age. Both suffer from mental illness and, as we can read in both stories, no one seems to care about the well-being of either woman. The other characters in the stories tend to ignore the symptoms each woman displays. Another similarity is that both women are guided to their psychological state by someone they look up to. In "A Rose for Emily", it is her father who keeps her isolated from the world, while in "The Yellow Wallpaper" it is her husband.