Symbols and Symbolism in The Yellow Wallpaper and A Rose for Emily

Symbolism in The Yellow Wallpaper and A travel for Emily William Faulkners A Rose for Emily and Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper h quondam(a) numerous similarities. two stories show the influences of society and the slow decay on a detail woman. The title of each piece becomes important to the plot and ultimate outcome. In several ways, each title takes shape to portray symbolism in one sense or another. The references to color identify contradictory messages to those who maintain not heard of these stories, while the title itself takes physical form and is lifespan at some point in the piece. When first assigned to look at The Yellow Wallpaper, a student may think of a bright, well-provided paper covered room. Little does he realize that, instead of a stereotypical lily-livered, the wallpapers color is...almost revolting a smouldering unclean chickenhearted (Gilman15). It reminds the narrator of all the yellow things she ever saw--not beautiful ones... but old foul, bad yellow things (23). According to Carol Westcamp, the author designed the wallpaper...to be yellow for a reason (Smouldering). Even though yellow is often viewed as a cheerful, joyful color...it shtup also set about unpleasant, exciting, and hostile moods due its symbolism (Westcamp). The wallpaper takes on a characteristic odor that creeps all over the house, drenching every room in its subtle aroma of decay (Gilbert 35). The only thing the narrator can think of that the smack is like is the color of the paper A yellow smell (Kivo 23). The narrator feels herself being drawn closer to the brink of insanity by the maddening color and begs her husband to do something about the paper, but he simply laughs at her. As the... ...apy. New York University Books, 1961. Dillon, George L. Styles of Reading. Polk 47-62. Gilbert, Sandra M. and Susan Gumar. The Madwoman in the Attic The char Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination. New Haven Yale UP, 1979. Kivo 44-46. Kivo, Carol, ed. The Harcourt enkindle Casebook Series in Literature The Yellow Wallpaper. Fort expense Harcourt, 1997. Polk, Noel, ed. William Faulkners A Rose for Emily. The Harcourt Casebook Series in Literature. Fort value Harcourt, 2000. Scherting, Jack. Emily Griersons Oedipus Complex Motif, Motive, and Meaning in Faulkners A Rose for Emily. Polk, 110-119. Westcamp, Carol. A Smouldering soiled Yellow An Analysis of The Yellow Wallpaper. Online. Ixquick. 4 Mar. 2002. <http//arapaho.nsuok.edu/english/westcamp.html>