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

Symbolism in The xanthous Wall stem and A Rose for Emily William Faulkners A Rose for Emily and Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The yellow(a) Wallpaper hold numerous similarities. Both stories picture the influences of society and the slow decay on a particular woman. The surname of each piece becomes important to the plot and ultimate outcome. In several(prenominal) ways, each title takes shape to portray symbolism in whizz sense or another. The references to color identify contradictory messages to those who have not heard of these stories, while the title itself takes physical form and is living at some point in the piece. When first assigned to read The Yellow Wallpaper, a student may entail of a bright, cheerful paper covered room. Little does he realize that, instead of a sterile jaundiced, the wallpapers color is...almost revolting a smouldering unclean yellow (Gilman15). It reminds the bank clerk of all the yellow things she ever saw--not beautiful ones... but old foul , worst yellow things (23). According to Carol Westcamp, the author designed the wallpaper...to be yellow for a reason (Smouldering). Even though yellow is practically viewed as a cheerful, joyful color...it can also cause unpleasant, exciting, and inappropriate moods due its symbolism (Westcamp). The wallpaper takes on a distinctive perfume that creeps all over the house, drenching every room in its astute aroma of decay (Gilbert 35). The only thing the fabricator can think of that the smell 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 vexatious color and begs her husband to do something about the paper, but he merely 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 Woman source and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination. New Haven Yale UP, 1979. Kivo 44-46. Kivo, Carol, ed. The Harcourt Brace textbook Series in Literature The Yellow Wallpaper. Fort Worth Harcourt, 1997. Polk, Noel, ed. William Faulkners A Rose for Emily. The Harcourt Casebook Series in Literature. Fort Worth Harcourt, 2000. Scherting, Jack. Emily Griersons Oedipus interlocking Motif, Motive, and Meaning in Faulkners A Rose for Emily. Polk, 110-119. Westcamp, Carol. A Smouldering Unclean Yellow An Analysis of The Yellow Wallpaper. Online. Ixquick. 4 Mar. 2002. <http//arapaho.nsuok.edu/english/westcamp.html>