The story "Uso" written by Alice Walker is set in the southern state of Georgia in the late 1960s or early 1970s. Alice Walker is known for writing stories about women portrayed as victims and stories that have unhappy endings. Use stands out from Walker's other stories because her protagonist had such confidence and defended her family's legacy against her daughter, who saw herself as above her family and her past. In the short story “A Rose for Emily” written by William Faulkner, the story describes a character, Emily, who went through a great struggle in her life and had difficulty finding her place in the world, as in the rest of life. his stories. The story is set sometime after the Civil War, between the late 1800s and early 1900s, in the fictional town of Jefferson, Mississippi. Even though those stories were written a long time ago, they are still relevant and relatable. Why are the two stories similar and different from each other? But more importantly, how can the two stories be connected? In an overall story about life, "Use" follows a mother and her two daughters, Dee and Maggie, through some flashbacks and memories, but ultimately the story unfolds as Dee brings a boy with her. home to meet his family and get some things from his mother. The mother, the narrator, is an ignorant Southern woman; she is a kind, gentle but stern woman who felt unappreciated by Dee even after all she had done for her. Dee no longer lived at home as her mother raised money to allow her to go to school in Augusta, Georgia. Dee considered herself above the rest of her family as if she were too good for them. Her family looked to her for approval; however he did not feel the same as his family. She ignores and even rejects his h... middle of paper... Now she too would know the old emotion and the old desperation of a penny more or less." “So the next day we all said: 'He will kill himself.' ; and we said that would be best.” Although both stories were told from the first-person point of view, both stories conveyed very different feelings their characters and thoughts, but in the end what can be understood from each story is the same. Life can be different for each person; life could be easier for some people, as in the case of Dee, and more difficult for others, as in Emily's case. Some will pity you, just as Emily was, and others will envy you, just as Dee was. Ultimately, if change is rejected, as Emily did, then the world could become a dark place and profound, or make the change and find the infinite possibilities in life, as Dee did..